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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin braved rough seas to help scientists study whales off Russia’s Pacific coast on Wednesday but was rebuked by environmentalists for allowing oil exploration nearby.
OSLO (Reuters) – Russia’s summer heat wave has dimmed prospects that northern countries will “win” from climate change thanks to factors such as longer crop-growing seasons or fewer deaths from winter cold, experts say.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s lax water purity standards and wasteful use of water pose a threat to national security, the head of President Dmitry Medvedev’s Security Council said in remarks published on Thursday.
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev asked Russia’s business elite Monday to help rebuild villages destroyed by fierce wildfires after rain and strong winds looked set to end weeks of unprecedented heat.
TAGANROG, Russia (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday canceled a state of emergency in three out of seven Russian regions affected by forest fires.
OSLO (Reuters) – Some of Russia’s smog-causing peatland fires are likely to burn for months, part of a global problem of drained marshes that emit climate-warming greenhouse gases, experts said on Wednesday.
Record heat and drought in Russia are curbing stock and bond trading as bankers flee Moscow to escape acrid smoke from wildfires east of the capital.
Wildfires from Russia’s record heat wave are curbing bond trading as the smoke engulfing Moscow drives away bankers.
OSLO (Reuters) – Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia’s heatwave match predictions of extremes caused by global warming even though it is impossible to blame mankind for single severe weather events, scientists say.
Wheat prices may be lower now that the dramatic spike higher has seen various speculators coming out and betting on a reversion, but little has been resolved yet, as Russia now debates extending the grain export ban beyond the December 31, even as fires in the Russian countryside continue to burn, and a record heatwave and lack of winds have concentrated a huge toxic cloud of carbon monoxide …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Scorching heat and acrid smoke have nearly doubled death rates in Moscow, a city official said on Monday as a shroud of smog from raging forest and peat fires beset Russia’s capital for a third week.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The death rate in Moscow has doubled as wildfires have blanketed the capital with toxic smoke amid Russia’s worst heatwave in over a century, Interfax cited the city’s health department chief as saying on Monday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow doctors said they were wary of diagnosing patients with heat and smoke-related illnesses out of fear they will lose their jobs, hinting at Russia’s long record of covering up the impact of disasters.
VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) – The death toll from Russia’s most deadly wildfires in almost four decades rose to 48 on Wednesday as fires raged across areas equal in total to Greater London, blanketing Moscow in acrid smoke.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A forest fire destroyed at least 13 hangars containing aircraft and equipment at a navy base outside Moscow last Thursday, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office disclosed on Tuesday.
MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) – Russia declared a state of emergency in seven regions on Monday after wildfires killed at least 34 people and left thousands homeless in the worst heatwave since records began 130 years ago.
VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) – Raging wildfires spread across parts of western Russia on Saturday, engulfing 30 percent more land in just 24 hours, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described the situation as very difficult.
MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) – Forest fires sweeping across European Russia on Friday killed at least 25 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago.
VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) – Forest fires swept across central Russia on Friday, killing at least eight people and forcing the evacuation of thousands during the hottest summer since records began 130 years ago.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected, a senior government weather forecaster said on Thursday.