Accidents
Russian Surfers Say Mysterious Pollution Is Poisoning Them
Blurred Vision Surfers in Kamchatka, Russia are reporting that the ocean water is leaving them with poisoning-like symptoms, CBS News reports. “For several weeks now, all surfers…
WWF targets Vladimir Potanin for Russia’s biggest oil spill
Billionaire Vladimir Potanin just wants to live a quiet life. But when his company Norilsk Nickel spilled over 20,000 tons of diesel into the Arctic,…
Norilsk Nickel admits pumping waste into Tundra
The world’s biggest nickel producer, already at the center of an investigation into a massive Arctic oil spill, is facing a separate probe into why…
Wildlife is Thriving in World’s Most Radioactive Region of Chernobyl
The Chernobyl reactor explosion was the world’s worst nuclear disaster and the current topic of a critically-acclaimed HBO show. However wildlife is surprisingly thriving in…
Russian Rivers are Full of Plastic Bottles: Plastic Pollution Inevitable
These shocking images show the horrific scale of plastic pollution as a riverbed is clogged with litter. Thousands of plastic bottles cover every inch of…
Second Chornobyl: Yunkom mine flooding in Donbas might become a disaster
Ukraine has frozen in panic expectation of the militants’ flooding of the Yunkom mine, located in the occupied part of Donetsk region, where an underground…
Fears of Radiation Leak From Flooded Ukraine Mine
Ukrainian Ecology Minister Ostap Semerak said the potential existed for a “radiation catastrophe” if plans to flood the Yunkom coal mine go ahead, The Irish…
Russian Scientists Found a New Genus and Species of Frogs
A team of scientists from MSU and their foreign colleagues discovered a previously unknown species and genus of batrachians Siamophryne troglodytes. These frogs live in the…