The city of Sumgait which was an environmentalist's nightmare, is now looking up. Almost every factory in this heavily industrialised city had to close due to skyrocketing costs after the loss of the

the world's first floating nuclear power plant, already under construction in Russia, will start operating by the

At last, Russia signs an agreement to tackle the massive radiation pollution in its sea and land

Rapid modernization in the oil industry is needed, as sloppy management and efficiency in tracing recent subterfuges has led to the loss of thousands of tones of oil in Russia. The environmental impact remains to be assessed

FOR certain US investors, it makes more sense to create money rather than thinking green. Why else would they hit upon the horrifying idea of felling trees in Siberia, which contains a fifth of

AFTER holding up obstinately Lrgainst a volley of criticism for 3 long months, the Russian government has finally buckled down and scrapped its plans of introducing a law which would require

THE inefficacy of locally made vaccines, according to doctors, is fanning the resurgence of a diphtheria epidemic in Russia and the newly independant states of the former Soviet Union. In the first 9

THE Arctic Ocean could be another Chernobyl in the making, says Alexel Yablokov, head of Russia's Interagency Commission on Ecological Security, pointing a finger at Russia's environmental

AS RUSSIA moves to a market economy, some celebrated but impecunious cosmonauts are cashing in on their space legacies. Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, pocketed $255,500 as he watched

New fossils discovered in Siberia indicate that marine life evolved over much less time than thought by scientists.