Siberia

More than 50 reported dead in Siberia coal mine accident

GRAMOTEINO, Russia (AFP) -- More than 50 people were reported to have died Thursday after smoke filled a Siberian coal…

5 years ago

by Andrea PALASCIANO Agence France-Presse UDOKAN, Russia (AFP) - In 1949, a Soviet expedition in Siberia was looking for uranium…

5 years ago

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Wildfires in Siberia, North America and around the Mediterranean caused record…

5 years ago

by Evan GERSHKOVICH YAKUTSK, Russia (AFP) -- Alexander Fyodorov peered out his office window towards the vast forests where wildfires…

5 years ago

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials Tuesday to send in reinforcements to fight forest fires that…

5 years ago

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian authorities Wednesday opened an investigation into suspected toxic waste pollution off the Kamchatka peninsula on…

6 years ago

by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average in June across much of permafrost-laden…

6 years ago

by Kelly MACNAMARA / Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average…

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by Maria ANTONOVA Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel…

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