Russia is considering a full ban on lumber exports to its largest trade partner, China, if Beijing fails to deal with illegal logging, the country’s minister of Natural Resources and Environment has warned in an interview with Vedomosti.
“China should have a clear understanding that if it fails to engage...
Russia’s Transport Ministry is considering a proposal by the State Duma’s Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to restrict the operation of transport vehicles that have hit their service life limit, TASS reported on Wednesday citing a ministry official.
"Proposals have been received, they are under consideration," the...
A Russian cruise ship docked for repairs on the Volga River has burned down near Nizhny Novgorod, Radio Liberty reported on Tuesday.
According to local media, the three-deck Holy Russia cruise ship was under repair near Bon, a town on the Volga River. The ship was not functional since 2018,...
The air will be 20% cleaner in 12 Russian industrial cities as a result of the implementation of the ecology national project. This was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kobylkin at a meeting with participants of the North-Caucasian...
As Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom is preparing to launch the world’s first floating nuclear plant in the Arctic Ocean, activists warn that the project is risky and could turn to “Chernobyl on ice”, Euronews writes.
The ship, Akademik Lomonosov plant, is anchored in Murmansk, a Russian town only 200km...
A fire that broke out on Thursday at a weapons testing range in northern Russia killed two people, briefly raised radiation levels and prompted the authorities to prohibit shipping and sailing in parts of the White Sea for a month, according to officials and news media reports, The New...
Hundreds of wildfires are torching huge swaths of Siberia after an unusually hot and dry summer left forests primed to burn, Vox reported.
The blazes, likely ignited by lightning and strengthened by strong winds, have already burned more than 15,000 square miles, an area larger than the state of Maryland....
The presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, held a telephone conversation, during which the latter offered help in fighting forest fires in Siberia, the Kremlin said in a press release, CNBC reported.
Putin sincerely thanked Trump for "such attentive attitude and offer of help...
Officials in Russia are planning to rezone the country’s largest national park and one of the largest natural reserves in Europe to allow gold mining, in a move activists say could put all nature reserves here under threat.
The Yugyd Va national park in the Komi Republic in northwestern Russia,...
Russian food retailer X5 Group has teamed up with Coca-Cola to test “reverse vending machines” in its Pyaterochka stores in Moscow, Cre.ru reports.
The retailer aims to use the initiative to collect and recycle used plastic bottles and aluminium beverage cans. The vending machines will dispense a 15% discount coupon,...
