nuclear pollution
Major bid to check radioactive waste dump area in Arctic archipelago.
Officials deny any risk of atomic contamination from the site in Sakha Republic.
The Usolyekhimprom facility, disused due to bankruptcy in 2017, is a ‘toxic catastrophe waiting to happen’.
The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.
The Russian government has ordered the evacuation of North Pole-40 Arctic Station.
Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one.
Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists.
Radiation, chemical and biological forces tackle two million tonnes of toxic chemical waste with huge mercury stockpile and oil poisons.
Sent to Siberia
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