The Xenos Company, a resident of the Yakutia Technopark, will breed colonies of wild mites to control pests of agricultural crops in the changing Arctic climate, according to Yevgeny Popov, the company's director general and a postgraduate at the Safronov Yakut Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture, TASS reports.
"We're raising...
According to satellite pictures reviewed by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the size of the oil leak near Russia's Novorossiysk is 400,000 times greater than the Caspian Pipeline Consortium first stated, totaling 80 square kilometers, Sputnik News writes.
"The leak is considerably greater than was stated, since the oil contamination...
According to early data, the cause of the helicopter accident in Kamchatka was crew mistake, a law enforcement source said TASS on Thursday.
"The pilot mistake version is currently in the spotlight. When the helicopter was descending in heavy fog, the crew couldn't see where it was going and landed...
According to satellite data, smoke from wildfires burning across Russia's biggest and coldest area reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history last week, Moscow Times writes.
According to the European Union's Copernicus satellite monitoring program, forest fires in the Siberian republic of Sakha (Yakutia), driven by...
The Russian Cabinet of Ministers' press service reported that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke by phone on Monday about the battle against wildfires, trade and economic cooperation, and COVID-19.
Trade and economic collaboration between Russia and Greece as well as the coronavirus were...
Alexander Kozlov, Minister of Natural Resources, cited statistics from Rosgidromet Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring as evidence that Russian processes in global warming are 2.8 times quicker than those elsewhere.
Temperature increases in Russia are 2.5 times quicker than the world average, according to federal service experts, TASS reports.
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In a post on its Telegram channel, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI, St. Petersburg) announced that the Arctic-2021 global expedition had left Murmansk aboard its Akademik Tryoshnikov diesel-electric research vessel. The expedition will carry out complex studies of Arctic nature in a changing climate, TASS reports.
Aboard the Akademik...
According to a source, the European Commission (EC) has technically prolonged antidumping penalties against Russian and Chinese steel that were set to expire on August 5, according to TASS on Wednesday.
"Antidumping duties on Russia and China will stay in force until the review procedure for these measures is finished....
According to a statement on the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute's Telegram channel, scientists at Arctic stations have detected smoke from wildfires burning in Yakutia and on the Taimyr.
Researchers said that visibility had reduced to 500 meters, the sky was cloudy and they could smell burning. The smoke lingered...
Fedor Konyukhov, a Russian adventurer has come back to Murmansk, a port city in the Russian northwest along with his team that volunteered to clean up the Arctic on the nuclear icebreaker called 50 Years of Victory, TASS informed.
Konyukhov who was the project's ambassador spent 10 days alone on...
