Tag: Russia - Page 3
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Rare Gyrfalcons Fly Again After Smuggling Bust
'Tis the season for heart-warming stories. This one is about eight endangered gyrfalcons, who were recently released back to the wild after being seized by customs officials in Moscow. The birds were found "swaddled in cloth, hooded and
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Russian Youth Take Out the Country's Trash
In the world's largest country, much of which is sparsely inhabited, it's easy for garbage to be out of sight, out of mind. But with Russia's people living increasingly urban, and
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400,000 Baby Chicks Killed By Bankrupt Poultry Farm
Poultry workers reportedly wept as they carried out their grim task -- overseeing the death of about 400 thousand newborn chicks by drowning them in water or simply dumping them in rusty barrels outside where they would succumb
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Highway Approved for Moscow's Khimki Forest
Celebrity support and public outrage have failed to keep a highway from being built through one of the few forests left in the Moscow region. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who lifted
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Russia's Permafrost Not So Permanent Anymore (Video)
"Looking for hard date in very soft ground..." If there's one thing that can make global warming worse, it's large quantities of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas, many times more potent than CO2), and if there's a place that contains a lot of
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Confused African Pelicans End Up in Siberia: Thanks, Global Warming.
Russia's been having a record breaking autumn weather-wise, with temperatures in Altai, in southwestern Siberia, remaining as high as 41° Fahrenheit. And it looks like the balmy weather has attracted
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Hungry Russian Bears Feasting on Human Remains
Imagine a troubling future where heat waves and wildfires sweep across the globe, decimating vegetation and forcing wildlife into communities to feast on rotting human flesh. No, it isn't the
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Russian Woman Builds House of 5,000 Glass Bottles
Besides shipping pallets, milk and beer crates, glass bottles are another building material that can be cheap, easily collected and reused, like in this house of 5,000 glass bottles built by a woman in Novoshakhtinsk,
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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow's Khimki Forest
Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous
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Northwest And Northeast Passages Are Open
For the fourth year in a row, and for the fourth time in recorded history, the Northwest passage is completely open. For only the third time, both
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Russian Heatwave's Effect on Agriculture a Sign of Things to Come Elsewhere?
Take it as a sign of things to common in more places without more concerted action on climate change: As the BBC reports, the recent millennial heat wave in Russia may be over but the
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Russia's Peatland Fires May Continue Burning Underground Through Winter
Burning for some weeks now, the fires in Russia are not only causing Moscow's daily death rate to double as smog engulfs the city, but are also emitting tons of greenhouse gas emissions as drained peatlands burn. What's
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Moscow Death Rate Doubles From Worst Heat Wave in 1000 Years
When the heatwave/forest fire/drought in Russia started a few weeks ago things were bad enough, with
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Another Crack: Petermann Glacier, Giant Ice Island, Breaks Off Into The Sea
While the Senate, the White House, and delegates in Bonn at the international climate negotiations dither, Mother Nature keeps the hits coming.
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Massive Russian Seed Bank of Berries at Risk of Demolition
It could be a potentially devastating loss for global biodiversity: we've caught word over
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Russian President: Heat Waves are 'Wake Up Call' to Climate Change
Image via the Kansas City Star "What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us" That's Dmitri Medvedev, the President of Russia, addressing the record heat waves that are currently devastating the largest
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Ugly Fight in Moscow Over Fate of Khimki Forest
The fate of an urban forest has sparked turmoil between protesters and police in Moscow, where
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Moscow Engulfed in Peat Smoke As City's Record-Breaking Heat Sets Off Fires
If you're sweating through a heatwave right now, take comfort knowing that you don't have massive peat-fires sending smoke across your town too, like in Moscow: The Russian capital experienced a record high of 99°F, on
