Topic: Russia
BORODINO, Russia (Reuters) - Three ear-splitting gunshots pierce the country air, a cavalry unit gallops across the forest clearing, and several thousand Russian spectators gasp and shriek with delight.The Battle of Borodino -- 2011 redux -- has begun.A burning thatched house provides ...
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday Russia had accumulated more than 30 billion tonnes of hazardous waste, calling on businesses to contribute to the country's environmental clean-up.Speaking in Dzerzhinsk, site of Cold War-era factories producing chemical weapons ranked as one of the ...
The city suffers from a housing shortage, and regulations on construction and housing became stricter as the real estate market started reaching its peak in the late 1990s. Since the '90s Moscow's sanitation system has become more efficient, and the government has ...
Bulgaria's environment ministry said in a statement that it would not give its approval to the pipeline until its plans are reworked.A key document on the possible environmental impact of the pipeline did not "list concrete measures for preventing leaks" in the ...
GRAPPLE | With Issues and Ideas. Dodging the Bullet | Otter Confusion | Race to Raze | Woe Is Us | As the World Warms | Up to Speed. Peter and Maria Hoey. The world is rapidly going bald.
GRAPPLE | With Issues and Ideas. Dodging the Bullet | Otter Confusion | Race to Raze | Woe Is Us | As the World Warms | Up to Speed. Peter and Maria Hoey. The world is rapidly going bald.
The Taiga biome is a belt of forest that stretches nearly all the way around the world, cutting its path through the far north of the North American Continent and most of Northern Russia. The majority of the forest is rooted across ...
Georgia on Thursday accused Russia of causing irreversible environmental damage in the Moscow-backed rebel Abkhazia region through its preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in nearby Sochi.Georgia's environment ministry said in a statement that "building materials such as rock and sand" were ...
Globally, the average carbon footprint is four tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per person per year. A study conducted by MIT students showed that members of the homeless population in the United States have a carbon footprint of around eight and a ...
The United States has offered to help major economies such as China and India develop shale gas, a rapidly growing sector in North America which US officials bill as a clean alternative.Twenty nations held two days of talks in Washington in first-of-a-kind ...
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