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An estimated 5,300 people gathered in the streets of Syktyvkar in a protest against Moscow’s building of a major landfill in nearby Shies.
June 03, 2019
Despite Arctic heat waves, Norway is not cooling down its emission of gasses causing climate crisis.
June 03, 2019
The spring is silent in Nikel, the industrial town near the border to Norway where Russia’s ultra-profitable smelter for nickel for decades has poisoned the surrounding nature.
May 31, 2019
Environmentalists say government neglects not only the young protesters, but also professional advice of leading experts.
May 29, 2019
The compartment with hundreds of partly damaged spent fuel elements is taken into a shelter to minimize the risk in case of radioactive leakages.
May 23, 2019
Researchers have never before seen spawning cod in the area of Jan Mayen.
May 16, 2019
The clever animal that for the past two weeks have thrilled locals along the Arctic coast of Norway should be transferred to a «suitable facility», fishery experts say.
May 15, 2019
In a rush, the Russian researchers picked up their gear when the giant ice floe broke into pieces.
May 02, 2019
Police makes series of detentions and issues major fines in bid to stagger growing protests against the building of a major garbage dump in the south of the region.
April 11, 2019
Our protest will not have an end, people say as rage builds up against a large dump for Moscow household waste in Arkhangelsk region.
April 09, 2019
The village of Shies today is the hottest spot on the map of environmental protests in Russia. Locals and activists are standing together against the construction of a landfill for Moscow's garbage and promise to stand there until the end.
April 04, 2019
A fresh assessment of threatened species indicates an increasing loss of biodiversity in Finnish nature. Of the 22,000 species evaluated in the Red List of Finnish Species, 11.9% were classified as threatened, compared to 10.5% in the previous assessment. In early March when the Red List came out in Finland, a Sámi reindeer herder observed the snowy owl, an extremely endangered species, in the fell area of Ohcejohka (Utsjoki).
March 26, 2019
«Some months have seen temperatures in the area around Longyearbyen with as much as 12-14 degrees over normal,» says climate researcher Ketil Isaksen with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
March 25, 2019
«What do we want? Action! - When do we want it? - Now!»
March 22, 2019
In the Murmansk region, the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere was measured at ten times more than the reasonable safety limit.
March 15, 2019
Amid growing protests against Arctic drilling, the Norwegian government proposes 48 new oil blocks in the Barents Sea
March 15, 2019
Winter temperatures in the Arctic are set to rise by 3 to 5 °C by 2050 even if the world succeeds in cutting emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, according to a new report by the United Nations.
March 14, 2019
We consider the interaction between our countries on regulation of joint fish stocks an example for all other coastal states, Russian Fishery Agency leader Ilya Shestakov underlined as he this week met with Norwegian special representative of the oceans Vidar Helgensen.
March 14, 2019
Russians are embracing environmental protest
February 21, 2019
In the Murmansk region, reindeer pastures and wintering grounds for breeding animals have been leased to VIP hunters
February 19, 2019
Norway’s go-ahead to controversial copper mine in Repparfjord on the Barents Sea coast causes pollution concerns for maritime environment important also for Russia.
February 19, 2019
Murmansk regional authorities want a permanent ban on hunting.
February 18, 2019
Photos and videos of the more than fifty polar bears walking around the houses in Belushaya Guba have gone viral in world-wide media arguing climate change is to blame.
February 14, 2019
Source of the radioactivity blowing in the wind is unknown.
February 11, 2019

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