One of only four places on Earth where geysers punch holes through the Earth’s crust to spew boiling water and steam skyward disappeared under water within hours after a massive slide of boulders, gravel, snow and ice choked the Geyser River in the world-famous Valley of the Geysers in Kamchatka’s Kronotsky Nature Preserve, according to World Wildlife Fund.
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June 6, 2007
The five hottest days in the city’s recorded history could be summed up by a single image: an ice-cream truck stuck in melted asphalt on a Moscow street.
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June 1, 2007
A nuclear waste dump in the Russia Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion caused by salt water in enormous storage tanks, the Norwegian environmental group Bellona warned Friday.
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World Wildlife Fund and the Interros, an industry group controlled by Norilsk Nickel billionaire owner Vladimir Potanin, which conducts the construction of the Roza Khutor ski resort in Sochi (a resort city in Russia’s South) announced the launch of a unique project titled “The Recovery of the Persian Leopard in the Caucasus.â€
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May 25, 2007
About 38,000 hectares of the forest are on fire in the Russian Far East, Siberia and the Volga-Urals region.
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May 8, 2007
According to the WWF a Russian hunter in the far-east of the country has shot and killed a rare Amur leopard, one of only around 30 left in the wild.
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April 24, 2007
Logging, building, farming and poaching have virtually killed off the Amur Leopard, the Reuters news agency quoted WWF officials as saying on Wednesday.
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April 19, 2007
A skeleton of a mammoth sold for 312,000 euros ($421,000) at a Christie’s International auction in Paris, double its estimate and setting a new record.
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April 17, 2007
Nearly 250 dead seals have washed up on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan in the past week, The Associated Press news agency reported quoting local emergency officials.
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April 8, 2007
The risk of survivors of the Chernobyl accident dying early is far less than supposed, ranking about the same as exposure to air pollution or passive smoking, according to new research published on Tuesday.
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