Tag: Russia - Page 4
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Russians Suffering Greatly From Weather Extremes
In Russia, half this year's crops are lost to drought - "Winter wheat crops are 50% of the yield, and spring crops, in some cases, are going to be virtually none." - and hundreds of vodka pickled swimmers have
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Russia Creates Nature Reserves the Size of Switzerland!
3% of Russian to be National Parks by 2020Some good news out of Russia, a country that hasn't always been very good at protecting its ecosystems. The Russian government is establishing 9 new nature reserves and 13 national parks covering a
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Russia Launches Barge For Floating Nuclear Power Plant
Does the idea of a nuclear
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Russian Man Single-Handedly Builds Underground Subway System
images credit altertravel.ru, no relation digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/russian-man-singlehandedly-builds-subway.php';Everybody is into rail these days; it is the greenest way to get around next to a bike. Leonid Mulyanchik has
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Europe's Longest Bridge Wobbles in the Wind (Video)
Bridges have long been considered testaments to mankind's ability to overcome the most challanging geographic obstacles with engineering prowess, but a recent incident involving Europe's longest span proves yet again that nature is a force to be
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Was Putin's Pledge to Clean Up the Arctic Just in Preparation for Messing it Up Again?
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
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Vladimir Putin Hearts Polar Bears
File this one under 'Slow News Friday', I guess. Maybe the AFP got sick of all of the nasty oil slick news and the headache-inducing climate bill developments -- so the news agency filed this
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Russia to Clean Abandoned Barrels of Oil from Arctic
Even in the one of the harshest, most remote regions of the world, humans have managed to make quite a mess. This is a sad reality Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin learned all too well today as he visited the arctic island
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Does Russia & US Arms Reduction Treaty Lower Chance of Nuclear Winter?
Even if there are caveats abound, Obama and Medvedev's signing of a nuclear arms reduction treaty is a very big deal. The biggest caveat is probably that the actual reductions in arms from each nation's nuclear arsenal aren't
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Japan and China Help Defeat Shark Conservation Proposal at UN Meeting
China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practice of
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Breathtaking Photos of Reindeer Herders Losing Their Livelihoods
As part of a project to document climate change on cultures in nine different parts of the world, the NOOR photo agency sent photojournalists out to see what they could find and the results are some
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Need a Nap? Rent a Sleepbox
Ever have a couple of hours to kill between flights or trains? Rose at Dezeen shows us the Sleepbox, from Russian architects Arch Group. They envisage this tiny booth being installed in airports, train stations and
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Russia's Plans for Mining Peat for Energy are Environmental Disaster
Though using peat as a fuel source on a small scale can be done with limited environmental impact, new Russian plans to radically increase the scale of peat mining for energy use are a
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The Weird, Beautiful Metros of the Soviet Union: A Slideshow
From Petersburg to Novosibirsk, the former Soviet Union boasts some of the world's most unique and ambitious metro systems. Built at command-economy speed, these metros were the result of a political
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Just What We Needed: Russia Building Another Floating Nuclear Power Plant
Yes, more floating nuclear power plants in Russia. The New York Times reports that United Industrial Corporation (abbreviated OPK from the Russian) has announced that the first of its floating nuclear power plants will come online in
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Russia to be Particularly Screwed by Climate Change
According to a new report from the World Bank, Russia is screwed. And in case you hadn't inferred, that's not quite a verbatim quote from the report. But it's more or less apt,
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Wild Dogs Take the Train to Commute in Russia
Mass Transit: Not Just for People Anymore Now, something a bit lighter than thermonuclear weapons... I just stumbled on a story in The Sun (so take it with a grain of salt) about wild dogs that take the train to commute from the city to the suburb in
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Russian Nuclear Power Station Takes an Axe to Santa's Workshop
As the Photo depicts, it is not Exxon/Mobil who will be bulldozing Santa's workshop this year, but rather the Russian state nuclear corporation, Rosatom. It will be a 70-megawatt prototype floating nuclear power station, consisting
