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Russia slashes environmental protections as war rages, economic crisis looms

Russia has quietly made it easier to build pipelines in nature reserves, scrapped regulations on automobile emissions and pushed back measures to reduce pollution as part of a broad rollback of environmental regulations that looks set to gather pace amid the war in Ukraine and a deep economic recession.
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In Russia’s fast-warming Arctic, questions over Moscow’s big plans for the Far North
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In Russia’s fast-warming Arctic, questions over Moscow’s big plans for the Far North

Thawing permafrost may have caused a disastrous diesel spill above the Arctic Circle and poses wider threats to Putin’s ambitious plans for military and industrial development in the region.
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Russian oil spill reaches pristine Arctic lake
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Russian oil spill reaches pristine Arctic lake

Diesel fuel from a 21,000-ton oil spill in the Russian Arctic has reached a freshwater lake that serves as a gateway into the Arctic Ocean, Russian officials announced.

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Norilsk tops world's list of worst SO2 polluters
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Norilsk tops world's list of worst SO2 polluters

1,9 million tons of sulfur dioxide from the chimneys in Norilsk were blowing over the Arctic tundra on the Taymyr Peninsula in 2018, according to an estimate in a NASA satellite study.
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The toxic city of Norilsk, Russia: 'My Deadly Beautiful City'

Norilsk, Russia. Population 177,00. It's the northernmost city in the world—and one of the most deadly.
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Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

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