Nature And Ecology

December 11, 2025 18:16

• Gravel mining in Liakhva threatens South Ossetia's ecosystem

  The Liakhva is the only major river in South Ossetia, and economic activity there threatens not only its wildlife but can also lead to shallowing. Meanwhile, local residents have shown little interest in keeping the river clean, even though water samples have only met safety standards at its source.

December 08, 2025 05:50

• Analysts expressed polar opinions on the results of monitoring the Black Sea's oil pollution

  Some analysts have accepted the veracity of the results of monitoring the Black Sea's oil pollution, which showed that the level this summer, despite the accident of two tankers, was one of the lowest in 18 years of observations. Others have questioned the scientists' conclusions.

December 07, 2025 07:00

• The head of a Sochi gardening association has been accused of seizing national park land

  The prosecutor's office charged the chairman of a gardening association with illegally seizing land in the Sochi National Park and felling trees. Damages were estimated at 156 million rubles, and the case has been referred to court.

October 12, 2025 20:33

• The task force and bloggers debated the scale of emissions in Anapa

  The task force reported minor fuel oil spills in Anapa. The storm dumped numerous fuel oil spills and even exposed buried bags of previously collected contaminated sand. Judging by the volume of the spills, the sand sifting operation needs to begin again, the blogger noted.

June 18, 2025 16:25

• Bloggers dispute operational headquarters’ data on absence of fuel oil emissions in Anapa

  A lot of clots of fuel oil washed up on the Central Beach of Anapa and the beaches of Dzhemete. This was reported by bloggers, who posted videos from the shore. The operational headquarters for the Krasnodar Territory reported no fuel oil emissions.

June 17, 2025 17:26

• Hoteliers in Anapa and Temryuk District will be partially reimbursed for amounts of returned reservations

  Because of the fuel oil (mazut) spill in the Black Sea, the occupancy rate of Anapa hotels has decreased by 50% compared to the same last year’s period. Some hotels are in dire straits because they cannot return money to tourists for cancelled bookings, a source from the Association of Russian Tour Operators has stated.

June 16, 2025 15:50

• Volgograd residents demand to stop urban development on Volga River bank

  At a rally against the urban development, residents of Volgograd have claimed that the construction of a high-rise residential complex on the Volga River bank threatens the safety of nearby houses and violates environmental standards. The activists addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Russian Investigating Committee, with the demand to bring to responsibility the officials who approved the urban development in the region.

June 15, 2025 16:32

• “Rospotrebnadzor” strengthens radiation monitoring in Dagestan

  In connection with the data on the radiation leak in Iran, the round-the-clock monitoring of the radiation situation is conducted in the southern part of Dagestan.

June 10, 2025 18:51

• Federal authorities allocate almost 10 billion roubles to eliminate fuel oil spill consequences

  1.4 billion roubles, in addition to earlier allocated 8.5 billion roubles, will be provided to the “Rosmorrechflot” (Russian Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport) for monitoring the pollution of the sea with oil products, inspection and sealing up of sunken tanker parts.

June 02, 2025 16:43

• Anapa townspeople demand to speed up fuel oil pumping out from sunken tanker parts

  Authorities are delaying the liquidation of the environmental disaster without addressing the root cause thereof, Anapa residents have stated in their video appeal addressed to federal authorities, demanding to speed up the pumping out of oil products and lifting the sunken parts of the tankers.

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