New waste management complex will be constructed in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF (Russian Direct Investment Fund), Sibinveststroy and Urbaser, Spain’s leading municipal solid waste (MSW) management company, have agreed to jointly implement…
Warming Ocean Currents Affect Weather and Environment
If one can imagine looking at our globe from the South Pole end, one can observe the ocean currents circulating water across the oceans. First…
Arctic temperatures 2.5 degrees higher than normal in 2018, fall and winter warmest since 1938
Air temperatures were 2.5 degrees Celsius higher than normal in the Russian Arctic in 2018, especially in the Eastern Arctic, where temperatures exceeded the norm…
Russian foxes bred for tameness may not be a validity of ‘domestication syndrome’
For the last 60 years, scientists in Siberia have bred silver foxes to be increasingly tame, with the goal of revealing the evolutionary and genetic…
Kazakhstan’s senate speaker proposed to consider status of the Ural River
Dariga Nazarbayeva Chairwoman of the Senate of Kazakhstan’s Parliament and Valentina Matvienko, speaker of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russia,…
Russia, Uganda relations to boost development
Putin thanked Ugandan for taking part in the summit, stressing that the two countries have a common task of developing trade and economic relations. President…
Protected Areas: the Past, Present, and Future of Conservation
The greatest conservation success story in the 21st century is the exponential growth of protected areas–a primary defense mechanism against Earth’s bioersity loss. In 1992,…
Сoral Reefs Shifting Away from Equator
Coral reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new reefs in more temperate regions, according to new research. The researchers found that the number…