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Firefighters and forestry workers in Russia's Far East extinguished 14 wildfires and continue putting out another 12 in the past 24 hours, the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
Russia's Consumer Protection Service in the southern Rostov Region has stepped up controls on the border with Ukraine following an outbreak of cholera in the neighboring Donetsk region, the regional CPS head said on Wednesday.
An active volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is currently spewing plumes of ash at a height of up to 9 kilometers (5.6 miles), Russian scientists reported on Tuesday.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) reached a historical maximum of 30.6 billion metric tons in 2010, up 5% from the previous record set in 2008, the International Energy Agency said in a report on Monday.
Russia is experiencing an acute shortage of personnel to ensure the decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear facilities, state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom officials and experts warned on Friday.
Russia should set up ecological barriers on its borders to minimize the impact of global natural disasters, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday.
A plume of ash from Iceland's Grimsvotn Volcano may reach Russia's second-largest city of St. Petersburg tonight, but is unlikely to cause any problems, a weather expert said on Wednesday.
Global warming can uncover and expose anthrax cattle burial sites in the Arctic and cause the spread of dangerous infections, Russia's Emergencies Ministry warned on Wednesday.
Russia's environmental watchdog said on Tuesday that checks by experts proved that media reports about the mass death of dolphins in the Black Sea were false.
A Russian documentary about Lake Baikal will be shown in France and Monaco in June, Baikal Protection Foundation President Mikhail Slipenchuk said on Monday.
A rescuer who was clearing rubble at the site of Japan's nuclear power plant that was badly damaged by the March 11 earthquake died Saturday, Kyodo News said quoting the plant operator.
Ecologists have warned that it is too soon to judge what environmental impact an oil slick in the Barents Sea has had.2
Environmental activists have criticized Russian police for using heavy-handed tactics after they detained at least 25 people at a rally against the demolition of mature woodland near Moscow to make way for a new highway to St. Petersburg.
Radiation levels have dropped inside the No. 1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Saturday.
China has started the construction of a unique center that will provide some 40 giant pandas with comfortable accommodation and exclusive treatment, Chinese media reported on Thursday.
Radiation levels are within the norm in all districts of Russia's Far East, where local authorities introduced daily radiation monitoring following the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant in March.
Rescuers have extinguished 20 wildfires on an area of 800 hectares in the Russian Far East, a local Emergencies Ministry spokesman has said.
In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in the Soviet Union. As result of the disaster, a territory of 160,000 square kilometers was contaminated. Among the most affected areas were northern Ukraine, western Russia and Belarus.