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- Russia's Arctic region sees second fuel leak in just two months as state of emergency declared
Just six weeks following a huge oil spill in the north of Russia, the country has experienced another environmental disaster, after 45 tons of jet fuel leaked from a pipeline in the Krasnoyarsk Region, inside the Arctic Circle. - Russia starts building world’s largest & most powerful nuclear icebreaker for Arctic sea voyagesRussia’s Zvezda shipyard has begun construction of the first Leader-class nuclear icebreaker, according to Rosatom subsidiary Rosatomflot. The flagship vessel will be named ‘Russia’.
- As wildfires ravage Russian forests, Arctic Siberia smashes record for hottest ever JuneRussia's Siberian Arctic has recorded its hottest ever average June temperature. In 2020, the region was more than five degrees Celsius warmer than is usual for the first month of summer.
- The Arctic is burning: As temperatures reach 100F, over a million hectares of Siberian forest is on fireIf there’s one place you’d least expect to see a forest fire, it’s perhaps inside the Arctic Circle. However, in the last week, wildfires in Siberia have increased nearly fivefold – and they are occurring further north than usual.
- 100 degrees Fahrenheit! Eastern Siberian town shatters record for hottest-ever temperature inside Arctic CircleThe small town of Verkhoyansk, home to 1,000 people in Russia's Yakutia region, broke the record on Saturday for the highest temperature ever recorded within the Arctic Circle, hitting a maximum of 38 degrees Celsius.
- Criminal case opened against Norilsk mayor following massive Siberian oil spill that threatens Arctic OceanNearly two weeks after an ecological disaster that has shocked environmental activists both in Russia and abroad, the top local official in Norilsk is to be prosecuted for ‘negligence.’
- China shreds US for decrying Beijing’s ‘predatory interests’ in Arctic… while seeking to buy GreenlandChina’s envoy to Denmark has penned a harsh rebuttal to his American counterpart, who accused Beijing of seeking to impose “authoritarian values” on Greenland – in stark contrast to an honest US offer to outright buy the island.
- What pandemic? US & Royal Navy launch Cold War-style provocation in Russia’s Arctic backyardMillions of Americans and Britons losing their livelihoods under Covid-19 lockdowns can rejoice that their navies are open for business, staging a show of force on Russia’s doorstep for the first time since the Cold War.
- WATCH Russian paratroopers in world’s FIRST-EVER 10km group jump… in the ARCTICRussian Airborne Troops practiced their high-altitude parachuting skills in one of Earth’s most extreme environments – above a freezing Arctic wasteland. An exercise of this kind has never been attempted before.
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