Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday signed a decree giving formal support to the Paris climate agreement and ordered Russian laws to be adapted to its obligations, Reuters reported.
The document says that Russia is formally adopting the 2015 Paris agreement and will now "allocate financial resources... to developing countries...
Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region will use Norwegian extraction technology in kelp and other algae production, the executive director of the region’s Algae Plant Alexei Korotenkov told state-run news agency TASS on Friday.
"We now collect algae, like it was done centuries ago, by mowing, while the Norwegians use special equipment," Korotenkov said. "We,...
A new bill to introduce excise taxes on electronic cigarettes was drafted by Russia’s healthcare ministry, Russian news agencies reported on Friday, citing minister Veronika Skvortsova.
In the past decade, Russia has tightened tobacco sales regulations as part of a wider campaign to reduce smoking. “The manufacturers of these products...
The appearance of a gas odor in some areas of Moscow may be due to its increased odorization, Mosgaz reported. Odorization - this gives the domestic gas a sharp aroma. This process is carried out at gas distribution stations outside the city, Kommersant reported.
“Mosgaz is currently receiving appeals from...
Despite warnings from environmentalists who called Russia’s new floating nuclear power plant "Chernobyl on ice," the world's first floating nuclear reactor set sail on Friday on a journey across the Arctic, Reuters reported.
Loaded with nuclear fuel, the Akademik Lomonosov left the Arctic port of Murmansk to begin its 5,000...
Norway doubts the Northern Sea Route’s route’s economic feasibility and plans to check its compliance with environmental standards, Norway’s top diplomat Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide told Izvestia in an interview published Monday.
Soreide said she has no idea how Russia would be able to ensure the safety of shipping in Arctic waters...
A recent deadly explosion at a military testing site in northwestern Russia hasn’t posed any radiation threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, without specifying the circumstances of the mysterious incident, the Associated Press reports.
Putin emphasized that neighboring nations haven’t recorded any spike in radioactivity.
“These are the objective...
The city of Norilsk in Russia’s Arctic, home of mining and metals giant Norilsk Nickel, has the highest sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions in the world, satellite data from U.S. space agency NASA shows, according to Reuters.
Environmental group Greenpeace India used the U.S. space authority’s satellites to track anthropogenic sulphur...
German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is supplying a new coal handling system to the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) in Russia, Mining Magazine reports.
The system will be the centerpiece of a new terminal for coal exports in the Port of Lavna near Murmansk, on the western shore of Kola...
Nearly 200,000 more Russians died than were born in the first half of this year, the worst figure since 2008, data published by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service shows, according to Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
In January-June 2019, some 719,700 people were born in Russia, 8% fewer than in the same...
