A 21,000 tonne (approximately 23,000 U.S. ton) oil spill that prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to declare an emergency last week has now reached a pristine Arctic lake, and there are concerns it could contaminate the Arctic Ocean. Environmentalists and local officials have raised alarms about the disaster, which they say is the worst of […]
An area of 3.2 million hectares (7.9 million acres) was engulfed by forest fires in remote regions of Russia on Monday. In comparison, the total surface of the nation of Belgium is 3.07 million hectares. With fires raging for days, immense clouds of smoke reached large population centers, including Russia’s third biggest city, Novosibirsk. Authorities […]
Their signs read “We want to live!” and “Road to Death,” and many bear the bright yellow symbol warning of radiation. On Monday, several hundred protesters gathered in the south of Moscow outside residential housing blocks that overlook a nuclear waste site. The site is located between the Moskva river and the popular Kolomenskoe park. […]
The U.S. has thrown its hat in the ring with three other fossil-fuel friendly nations to block the COP24 talks from “welcoming” the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that warned that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 45 percent of 2010 levels by 2030 in order to limit warming to 1.5 […]
Ninety belugas and 11 orcas are being held in tiny enclosures described by media reports as “whale jails” off Russia’s Pacific east coast. An investigation has been launched at the site near city of Nakhodka, where some of the whales have been contained since July, CBS News reported. ‘Whale prison’ discovered by drone in Far […]
A site once a symbol of one type of apocalypse is now helping to stave off another. Ukraine opened a solar plant on Friday in Chernobyl, a little more than 100 yards from the power plant that caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, AFP reported. “Today we are connecting the station to the […]
By Amy McDermott At the height of the Alaskan summer, a troupe of students hiked up the middle of a shallow creek. Undergraduates and grads from the University of Washington, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Kamchatka State Technical University in eastern Russia carried handheld clickers to count the multitudes of salmon thrashing upstream to […]
Denmark’s Maersk Line, the world’s largest shipping company, will soon be the first to send a container vessel through Russia’s Northern Sea Route, as the melting Arctic opens up new trade possibilities. The Northern Sea Route has been historically impossible or prohibitively expensive to cross due to frozen sea ice. But the Arctic is warming […]
By Andy Rowell A “traitor.” “Putin’s Poodle.” “Open Treason.” These are just some of the harsh headlines to greet Trump after yesterday’s summit in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The papers back home were indignant with rage. The New York Times called Trump Putin’s “lackey.” The paper said that this was the summit that […]
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