The 50th-anniversary edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has concluded, with discussions about environmental degradation and climate change in the focus of the annual gathering of the world’s business elite, Izvestia writes.
Prior to and during the forum, held under the theme "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and...
Residents of the Moscow Region July 7–8 expect a thunderstorm, rain with hail and wind with gusts of up to 22 meters per second, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the Moscow Region.
Rescuers advise to refrain from traveling and,...
Russian corporations VEB.RF, Rostec, and Rosatom have partnered to construct at least 25 waste-to-energy plants that will process sorted municipal solid waste to power some of Russia’s largest communities.
The parties plan to build the plants in Russia’s largest tourist centers, as well as in cities with populations of at...
The Russian capital has seen a snowier-than-usual winter this year, getting over 100 cm of powder (nearly 70 percent of the annual average), since 1 December, Sputnik reports.
Moscow is bracing for a "snow apocalypse" as meteorologists predict 36 straight hours of non-stop precipitation and wind speeds of up to...
Russia's 'Go Green' ambitions are about to get a significant boost from the VEB.RF corporation, with the focus being on attracting private investments for pursuing national environmental goals, Environmental Finance reported.
VEB.RF is working on the first-ever national standard of green finance to help achieve this goal, in sync with...
Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) is disputing more than $2 billion in damages after a fuel spill which Russia’s environmental watchdog has said threatens unprecedented damage to the Arctic, Reuters reports.
Watchdog Rosprirodnadzor sent a request for “voluntary compensation” of almost 148 billion roubles ($2.1 billion) to Nornickel power...
U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed a planned G7 summit slated to happen in June but has invited Russia to attend the rescheduled meeting in September in New York, bne IntelliNews has said.
Trump, keen to show the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic-related lockdown is coming to an end, called for a...
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...
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Viktoria Abramchenko stated at the 9th Nevsky International Ecological Congress in St. Petersburg that the Russian government is working on modifications to laws that might restrict the manufacture of non-recyclable plastic materials in Russia, The Moscow Times reports.
According to the administration, new measures will...
Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on Sunday on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic amid a push by the Kremlin to expand the country’s activities in the region, Reuters reports.
The Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average over...
