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    Moscow Residents Fight Back Against ‘Second Chernobyl’

    Moscow Residents Fight Back Against ‘Second Chernobyl’

    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. […]

    90 Belugas, 11 Orcas Trapped in ‘Whale Jail’ off Russian Coast

    90 Belugas, 11 Orcas Trapped in ‘Whale Jail’ off Russian Coast

    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 […]

    Solar Plant Opens at Uninhabitable Chernobyl Nuclear Site

    Solar Plant Opens at Uninhabitable Chernobyl Nuclear Site

    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 […]

    Sharing Knowledge and Salmon Across the Bering Sea

    Sharing Knowledge and Salmon Across the Bering Sea

    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 […]

    World’s Largest Shipping Company to Send First Ship Through Melting Arctic

    World’s Largest Shipping Company to Send First Ship Through Melting Arctic

    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 […]

    ‘Traitor’ Trump ‘Colludes’ With Putin Over Oil

    ‘Traitor’ Trump ‘Colludes’ With Putin Over Oil

    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 […]

    Russian Asbestos Company Makes Trump Its Poster Boy

    Russian Asbestos Company Makes Trump Its Poster Boy

    Asbestos killed at least 45,221 Americans between 1999 and 2015, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found. But President Donald Trump has long expressed his support for the dangerous mineral currently banned by 65 countries. “If we didn’t remove incredibly powerful fire retardant asbestos & replace it with junk that doesn’t work, the World […]