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Ruslan Tishenko admits that he accepted a six million rubles bribe from the industrial company.
September 07, 2016
Environmentalists in the SPOK group has since 1996 worked to protect vulnerable forest land in Karelia. This week, their offices were searched by security agents.
September 06, 2016
Grouse population in Finnmark is only one third of last year's.
August 30, 2016
The Franz Josef Land is included in the Arctic National Park. It will help protect vulnerable Arctic ecosystems, Minister Sergey Donskoy says.
August 26, 2016
Tons of scrap metal and waste material from the Soviet past is ready to be shipped to the mainland.
August 26, 2016
A group of environmentalists intended to study climate change in the Russian Arctic peninsula.
August 24, 2016
The town on the Kara Sea coast switches on its new wind park.
August 17, 2016
Ice layers in parts of the country’s Arctic shrink to almost 70 percent below normal.
August 11, 2016
Norway’s Minister of Fisheries Per Sandberg calls on more cooperation in border areas after a scandalous video shows how tons of dead and half-dead salmon were dumped on the coast of the Barents Sea.
August 10, 2016
The company reportedly paid leader of the regional Nature Protection Control Authority almost five million rubles to cover up eco crimes.
August 05, 2016
A new book tells the story about how a popular movement gathered the whole community of Kirkenes in a joint protest against heavy pollution from neighboring Nikel. More than two decades later, the winds still bring poisonous sulphur across the border.
August 04, 2016
Video footage from last year’s aquaculture scandal in Murmansk shows fish farmers cutting loose the bottom of a cage net littering the Arctic sea bottom with dead and half-dead fish.
August 01, 2016
If this is the new trend, it will dramatically affect ecology in the region, researchers say.
July 22, 2016
Number of reindeer on Nenets tundra up by more than 270,000 in 15 years
July 21, 2016
“Pollution from Nikel must stop,” says Kirkenes-Mayor Rune Rafaelsen and suggests traveling together with Norway’s Minister of Environment to Moscow to solve the problem.
July 14, 2016
Immense blooms of the alga forming the turquoise colored belt now stretching across the Barents Sea may be linked to warming Arctic.
July 13, 2016
Unhealthy air-quality from a factory wrapped in pollution continues in Nikel despite closure of similar melting technology in Norilsk for environmental reasons.
July 12, 2016
The hunt for the berries often referred to as “the gold of the Barents Region” has started two weeks earlier than normal.
July 11, 2016
Environmentalists want the remote Arctic island to become national park.
July 06, 2016
There is still a way to go before the island of Kotelny is rid of its dirty Soviet past.
June 21, 2016
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has advised Norway and Russia to cut the Barents Sea cod quota to 805,000 tons for 2017.
June 16, 2016
On the Kola Peninsula, the spring of 2016 was the warmest since 1936, with an average temperature of 4.1°C above normal in April and May.
June 15, 2016
A cross-party energy deal has been reached between Sweden’s government and three opposition parties. Sweden will have 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, but there is not yet a deadline for the phase out of nuclear power.
June 14, 2016
“Lepse” is a shining example on how Europe and Russia work together on solving an urgent nuclear safety problem.
June 09, 2016
New data shows that May saw its lowest-ever sea ice extent, by a significant margin. By the height of summer, Arctic sea ice will be probably be at its lowest levels ever recorded.
June 09, 2016

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