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EU agrees on a most comprehensive climate action packages in its history
The EU aims to cut its climate emissions by 55 percent by 2030 and thus comply with the Paris climate agreement, while Social Climate […]
Tag: Russia
Biodiversity
Tourism, corruption threaten world’s largest freshwater lake
Vitaliy Ryabtsev Since Siberia’s Baikal Lake became a popular destination, a booming industry catering to holiday goers, mainly from China, is eating away at […]
Cities
Inside Crimea’s slow-burn water crisis
David Axelrod Since the end of August, timetables for water supply have been introduced in Simferopol and Bakhchysarai. Authorities restricted water supply in three […]
Biodiversity
Siberian Wildfires Cover Russian Cities in Smoke
Major Eastern Russian cities are shrouded in haze as a mega fires continue to burn through Siberian Taiga forests, in what is becoming an […]
Climate
Siberia heatwave: why the Arctic is warming so much faster than the rest of the world
Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol On the eve of the summer solstice, something very worrying happened in the Arctic Circle. For the first time […]
Climate
Recreating the Ice age and slowing global warming in remote Russian Artic
In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park […]
Biodiversity
Climate Justice in Sapmi: Frontline truths from Europe’s Far North
The indigenous Saami live in the Arctic regions of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, at the frontlines of climate change. In this video, Jonas […]
Biodiversity
Paris climate talks: Russia will use its huge forests as a bargaining chip
Marianna Poberezhskaya, Nottingham Trent University Russia’s strategy at the talks-It will want strong recognition of the role forests play in the climate with 640 […]