According to a recent study by scientists at the Carbon Brief climate analytics website, Russia has contributed 6.9 percent of the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions since 1850, Moscow Times writes.
Russia is fourth in the world in terms of yearly carbon emissions, according to data from the Union of...
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...
As governments across the world are urged to address the growing danger of global warming, the Russian leadership has come out with a "national adaptation plan" that puts a positive spin on climate change, CBS News writes.
In the document published on a government website last weekend, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
The unrest in Minnesota demonstrates that serious human rights problems have accumulated in the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, TASS reported.
"This incident is not the first in the string of incidents exposing lawlessness and unjustified violence by ‘guardians of law and order’...
Russian nickel and palladium producer Norilsk Nickel will impose ecological targets for its management team after the Arctic fuel spill, it said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Arctic environment security at Nornickel’s assets has been in the spotlight since 21,000 tonnes of fuel leaked from a tank at its power plant...
Nature of the Arctic zone is extremely vulnerable, so any economic activity in the northern areas should be so organized that environmental risks are minimized there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with volunteers held as a video conference on Saturday, TASS writes.
A participant in the video...
Russia has claimed new slices of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean in two fresh submissions to the United Nations, The Moscow Times reports.
According to its March 31 submissions, Russia is seeking to define the outer limits of its continental shelf to include the Gakkel Ridge, the Lomonosov...
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...
Smokers in Russia are fuming at the latest fire safety legislation adopted to decrease the number of fires caused by human error, AFP reported.
From October 1, any "open fire", including lighting cigarettes on balconies of residential houses or hotels is banned, a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
At the beginning of this month, Russia's national development corporation VEB.RF, RT-Invest, and the Swiss-Japanese consortium Hitachi Zosen Inova signed an agreement to build four large-scale waste-to-energy plants. The creation of the plants will cut the amount of municipal waste sent to Moscow landfills by about a third. The...
