The bite seems to be absent from the winter over much of Russia and Europe this year. Temperatures have been eight to nine degrees higher than normal in Russia, according to Roman Vilfant, head of

10th climate change meet shows how weak the will to combat global warming has become

Overwhelming approval by both houses of Parliament

No let up in fossil fuel consumption. Why?

Kyoto Protocol awaits Russian Duma s approval

Trade interests always reign supreme, usually disastrously so: the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals might soon be rendered purposeless if the trend spearheaded by Russia and Canada at the

What is being sold?

But nuclear power won t give up

Nuclear hardsell s most potent weapon

Nuclear power wants to pose as peace, sustainability. But to the world, it has always meant the bomb and danger. What are governments doing to sell nuclear power to their people? From Moscow and Obninsk in Russia, RICHARD MAHAPATRA reports on a hardsell

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