President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the Russian government to work towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, but disappointed activists by setting a goal they said would allow emissions to rise, Reuters reported.
Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has previously signalled...
Russian eco-activists will end more than two years of protests against a controversial garbage dump that would have seen tons of waste shipped from Moscow to northern Russia after its construction was halted, The Moscow Times reports.
Russians nationwide have protested against plans to ship Moscow’s trash to remote regions...
Russian aluminium giant Rusal said on Tuesday it had requested Norilsk Nickel’s board of directors make management changes, relocate its headquarters to Norilsk in Russia’s Arctic and overhaul its environmental and safety policies, Reuters reported.
Rusal said it was seriously concerned by a series of ecological accidents in Norilsk and...
Russian fire crews extinguished a fire that broke out at an oil refinery in Moscow, the Emergency Ministry said on Saturday, according to Vedomosti.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a furnace of a catalytic cracking unit for oil refining has caught fire at the plant. More than a...
