A 5.0 magnitude earthquake was registered on Saturday in the Pacific Ocean near Russia's Kuril Islands, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik.
The head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismological station said that residents of Severo-Kurilsk had felt the 5.0 magnitude tremor.
"The 5.0...
Russia plans to cut state funding for the green energy sector by nearly a quarter, or 22%, The Moscow Times reports, citing Kommersant.
The government’s budget for its 2025-2035 renewables program will be cut from 400 billion rubles ($5.4 billion) to 313 billion rubles ($4.3 billion), unnamed sources told Kommersant,...
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, direct damage from the flames ravaging Yakutia already totals over 1 billion rubles ($13.5 million). There have been a total of 1,227 wildfires in the province since the start of the fire season, compared to 1,503 at the same time in 2020, TASS...
Russia generates much less greenhouse emissions than other major economies throughout the globe, but it will bear the brunt of the consequences of global warming more than others. A group of American researchers developed a worldwide geographical index of climatic inequality.
According to an article in Science Advances magazine, it...
Russia is considering climate legislation that could give the country a framework for regulating carbon emissions for the first time, Kommersant reported this week.
Russia is the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO2 into the atmosphere. The draft bill would give the government powers to introduce greenhouse gas emission...
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...
Russia's emergency services rescued around 600 ice fishermen in a nearly-seven-hour operation after the men got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said, according to Sakhalin.info.
Around 60 more people were able to get back onto the shore on...
Asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) will approach Earth on Saturday but is unlikely to hit it, Russian space corporation Roscosmos told TASS Friday.
"According to information we have, the minimal distance between Earth and Asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) will be 5.09 million kilometers," the state corporation said. This would be closer...
Moscow State University's (MSU) glacier, which in the middle of the 20th century was announced the Urals’ longest and second biggest glacier, melted away, press service of the government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region said, commenting on results of the expedition to the Polar Urals’ glaciers, organized by the...
Four people were caught in an ice glacier collapse in Kamchatka, one was killed, three were wounded, press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS.
"According to operational data, four people from the tourist group were under the collapse: three of them were injured, one was killed," the press...
