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Russia’s Arctic coast loses 7,000 hectares annually due to climate changes

A new study conducted at the Moscow State University confirms that the Arctic permafrost along the country’s northern coastline is thawing at terrifying speeds.
December 27, 2021

Moscow national security chiefs fight western windmills

Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warns against the EU's push for renewable energy, and Council Deputy Head Dmitry Medvedev argues that Western countries' drive for environmentally high standards in the Arctic is politically motivated and aimed at weakening Russia.
December 15, 2021

More pollution from Nornickel, Kola peninsula covered by smog

Kilometers and kilometers of fragile taiga nature west of the smelters for nickel and copper in Monchegorsk was Friday covered by smog containing sulfur dioxide and heavy metals.
July 27, 2020

A month after environmental disaster comes another major oil spill on Taymyr tundra

At least 45 tons of jet fuel leaks into the ground from a pipeline owned and operated by Nornickel.
July 12, 2020

Arctic oilmen put their eyes on protected land

Oil company Rosneft intends to drill for oil in a protected nature reserve in the far northern Taymyr peninsula.
June 26, 2020

Radioactivity is blowing in the air

Invisible for humans, but detectable for radiation-filters. A cloud with tiny levels of radioactivity, believed to originate from western Russia, has been detected over Scandinavia and European Arctic.
June 26, 2020

More than 100 million cubic meters of sea bottom is removed from this Arctic bay to make way for grand natural gas project

Researchers believe Novatek's dredging in the Gulf of Ob might ruin local ecosystems and eliminate fish stocks.
June 17, 2020

Warning from eco inspectors: more tundra oil reservoirs could collapse

The Russian Environmental Control Authority calls on Nornickel and its subsidiary Norilsk Taymyr Energy Company to close down a major fuel storage park and empty the reservoirs of diesel oil.
June 12, 2020

National Security Chief sounds the alarm: foreigners might use tundra oil spill to defame Russia

It plays into the hands of the ones that want to discredit Russian Arctic policy, says Nikolay Patrushev.
June 11, 2020

Big clean-up after the catastrophe, but spilled oil will be removed from Taymyr tundra only next winter

Thousands of tons of spilled diesel oil are being pumped into special containers placed along affected rivers and creeks. The substances will be removed from the desolate area only after the tundra freezes next winter.
June 08, 2020

Environmental catastrophe is declared as one of biggest ever Arctic oil spills stretches out over Taymyr tundra

Large territories of rivers, streams and tundra lands are covered by more than 20 thousands tons of diesel oil from a reservoir owned by company Nornickel. The catastrophe was reported to the authorities only two days after the spill and nobody really knows how to clean up.
June 04, 2020

‘Zombie’ wildfires threaten Arctic Russia, scientists warn

June 01, 2020

Barents region prepares for flooding after snowiest winter in years

In Rovaniemi, the largest city in Finnish Lapland, water will rise close to the peak at the end of the week. Flood warnings are also issued for Northern Norway.
May 28, 2020

Red alert for northern Siberia as heat shocks threaten life on tundra

New temperature maps for the endless stretches of Russian Arctic lands bear witness of unprecedented warming.
May 25, 2020

Oslo ratifies landmark agreement on protection of Arctic fish stocks, ecosystems

The Norwegian Parliament approves the international agreement on unregulated fishing in the central Arctic Ocean.
May 20, 2020

A record early ice break-up in great river Yenisey tells story about dramatic change

Thousands of tons of river ice are pushing through the Siberian waterway towards the Arctic Ocean almost two weeks earlier that normal.
May 13, 2020

Ice-free Arctic summers likely by 2050, even with climate action: study

Much of the Arctic Ocean will become ice-free during summers by 2050 even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced sharply, according to a new study.
April 23, 2020

Supreme Court to hear Arctic drilling lawsuit

After losing two lower courts, four Norwegian environmental organizations have got acceptance to bring their demand for banning oil drilling in the Barents Sea in for the country’s highest court.
April 23, 2020

Radioactive Cesium measured up north could origin from Chernobyl forest fires

Bredo Møller with Norway's nuclear safety agency shows the air filter station where tiny small levels of Cesium-137 were measured this week.
April 21, 2020

New Russian governors oppose controversial Shiyes landfill in their backyard

April 18, 2020

The owner of this smelly skyline on the Arctic tundra is now Russia's richest

Vladimir Potanin boosted his personal fortune with $1,6 billion in 2019 and is now believed to hold a net worth of $19,7 billion, Forbes magazine reports.
April 07, 2020

Climate refugees: Kittiwakes flee bird cliffs to resettle in urban spaces

For humans they are noisy and messy neighbours, but they come for a reason. Stronger storms and wilder weather by the coast give fewer surviving chicks in their natural bird cliff habitat.
March 29, 2020

Starvation death looms as huge amount of snow piles up over icy crust

“It’s a serious crisis,” says Elisabeth Aspaker, County Governor of Norway’s northernmost region. She calls on everyone not to disturb the reindeer as “they need all their energy to find food.”
March 22, 2020

An extreme Russian winter

The world's coldest country is not as freezing as before.
March 10, 2020

Lifting Russia’s accident reactors from the Arctic seafloor will cost nearly €300 million

Experts are discussing the framework for safe lifting of dumped reactors from four submarines and uranium fuel from one icebreaker reactor in the Kara Sea, in addition to one sunken nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea.
March 08, 2020

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