In the Far East, there is less and less mature forest with high-quality timber suitable for processing.
Konstantin Lashkevich, the head of the RFP Group, the largest timber industry enterprise in the Far East, proposes for authorities to allow the privatization of 2-3% of the forests in Russia to engage...
The large anti-submarine warfare ship Severomorsk returned to the Northern Fleet’s main naval base of Severomorsk after accomplishing missions of the ninth Arctic deployment, the Fleet’s press office reported on Friday, TASS reported.
"Today an official ceremony was held in Severomorsk to welcome back the large anti-submarine warfare ship Severomorsk....
Russia has not been informed of any emergency situation in regard to the nuclear particles detected over the Baltic Sea, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, Reuters reports.
“We have an absolutely advanced radiation levels safety monitoring system and there are no emergency alarms,” Peskov told reporters. “We...
Russian companies are racing to send drones into the Arctic as the country expands its foothold in the forbidding region and climate change gradually opens shipping lanes, experts told Forbes magazine.
Manned crews in the Arctic face aircraft icing, volatile sea ice and extreme temperatures without support or communications infrastructure, the U.S....
Finland’s national air carrier Finnair has canceled flights to Russia along with some other countries in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the company said on Saturday, according to Yle News.
"Several countries have implemented new travel restrictions. Due to the situation, we cancel flights to Denmark and Norway 17.-31.3,...
Wildfires in Russia have burned across an area larger than the size of Greece so far in 2020, Greenpeace Russia said Monday as it criticized the authorities of inaction, The Moscow Times reported.
Using satellite data, Greenpeace Russia estimated that 19 million hectares (47 million acres) burned across Russia's forests,...
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake has been recorded by seismologists in the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of Kamchatka, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said, as reported by Sputnik.
"A seismic event with a magnitude of 5.0 occurred on Monday evening local...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday signed a decree giving formal support to the Paris climate agreement and ordered Russian laws to be adapted to its obligations, Reuters reported.
The document says that Russia is formally adopting the 2015 Paris agreement and will now "allocate financial resources... to developing countries...
A Russian court has suspended the construction of a drinking water bottling plant at Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region until violations revealed during checks are remedied, Sibnet.ru reports.
The court has therefore granted a lawsuit filed by the West Baikal trans-regional environmental prosecutor's office against Akvasib, the company investing...
Three people were killed Friday in a gas explosion at a mine in the Russian region of Siberia, prosecutors said, The Moscow Times reports.
"During operations, there was a sudden release of gas, which resulted in three people being buried under rubble," the Kemerovo region prosecutor's office said.
They said in...
