"Over 15 per cent of Russia is ecologically unsafe"
Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter-departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He …
Clash of the cyberworlds
In an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur …
Future compromised
The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …
What does the Russia oil spill mean for permafrost
The leak, in the Ambarnaya river, has put local ecology at risk, forcing the Russian government to impose an emergency in the area
Europe beats Russian winter; EU upgrades continent’s growth outlook despite energy crisis
The upward revision is despite an anticipated winter slump amid Russia’s war on Ukraine coupled with a looming energy crisis
Only a piglet in Russia’s war on patents
Post-Ukraine, Russia has held back from appropriating intellectual property despite a law to punish unfriendly countries
A gene that follows its own drum-beat
A team of Russian scientists have found in mice a gene, which, unlike others, decides when to express itself
Quarter-billion people face extreme poverty in 2022 as the rich get richer: Oxfam
Inflation driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine a major factors behind financial crisis
Ukraine: what will end the war? Here’s what research says
What can trigger a war? Which of those factors are relevant in the current scenario?
Cellular phones and shanties
Post-communist Siberia has hardly any paved streets, but is brimming with cellular phones and $40,000 jeeps
From Russia with love
Exchange of technology between Russia and the West is opening up new horizons in the aerospace industry
A Russian roulette
The main source of the illegal trade in ozone-gobbling chemicals, the mafia in Russia is now in the line of fire
Countdown to self-reliance
Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites
A Cash-hungry Russia eyes its Siberian coniferous forests
The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.
Disaster down the pipe
A major pipeline explosion exposes the danger posed by Russia's 140,000 km-long high pressure gaslines
To Russia, with love
Russia's forests receive a shot in the arm following a recent international decision to protect them from logging
Dumping right
At last, Russia signs an agreement to tackle the massive radiation pollution in its sea and land
A year of Russia-Ukraine war: Global fossil fuel ‘bonanza’ may lead to more conflicts, warns Greenpeace
‘Neo-colonial models of extracting fossil fuels at any cost have to come to an end’
Nord Stream leaks: Where will Europe get its gas from now?
The next two winters are going to be very challenging for all of Europe’s gas consumers
Why is there a coal crisis in India?
International coal prices started reaching record highs from 2021 because of the rise in industrial demand, international price fluctuations and …
How does the Ukraine invasion lead to a world food crisis?
Russia and Ukraine are among the largest producers and exporters of grain globally. Because of the invasion, a large stockpile of grain and …
Biological Big Bang was briefer than believed
New fossils discovered in Siberia indicate that marine life evolved over much less time than thought by scientists.
Siberian tiger in the cold
Conservationists draw up strategies to arrest the rapid decimation of the great Siberian tiger
Crying over split oil
Rapid modernization in the oil industry is needed, as sloppy management and efficiency in tracing recent subterfuges has led to the loss of …
Could the Ukraine dam attack pose risks to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant? Experts explain
International Atomic Energy Agency is due to visit Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia plant next week, following Nova Kakhovka dam attack