Moscow -- An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, hundreds of miles south of its normal hunting grounds. Emergency officials in the city of Norilsk in a ...

A grim city dubbed “the most depressing on Earth” is so remote it can’t be reached by road and so polluted life expectancy is ten years lower than the national average. The most northerly city in the ...

Additionally, before 2024, the city’s 1,860 families will receive social payments to buy new housing in regions with a better climate and social-economic conditions MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The ...

It was 2 a.m. and the sun was shining, as it does day and night in mid-July in Norilsk, a Siberian city 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Igor Klyushin went to the bank of the river where he used ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Russia's Norilsk smelter complex and a town in South Africa's eastern coal mining province have the highest sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions in the world, according to ...

NORILSK, Russia -- Photographer Aleksandr Kharitonov grew up in the remote Russian mining city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle. His images of its landscapes, remnants of its Soviet past, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed a proposal to declare a state of emergency on a federal scale, days after a diesel fuel leak seeped into local rivers, threatening an ecological disaster in ...

AMMA will be the world’s northernmost museum of modern arts KRASNOYARSK, June 15. /TASS/. The Arctic Museum of Modern Art (AMMA), which will be the northernmost museum of the kind, will open by 2025 ...