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A story map on the current state of one of the most polluted cities in Russia.
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The notion of building an industrial center on the tundra of the world’s northernmost continental peninsula, the Taimyr Peninsula, was staggering in its bravado. But Soviet dictator Josef Stalin viewed it as a national imperative to develop Siberia and the ore deposits discovered by explorers in the 1920s. And he could deploy an almost inexhaustibl...
The story of Norilsk’s pollution is written in the trees. It can be seen in the 5.9 million acres of dead and dying boreal forest downwind from the Norilsk Nickel compound—a scar larger than the size of New Jersey slashed into the largest forested region on Earth. A team of Russian and European scientists have looked deeper, and they have been able...
Klyushin and other local environmental activists agitated for years for Rosprirodnadzor, the Russian environmental protection agency, to establish a presence in Norilsk. They succeeded in early 2020, and the job of deputy head of the new Norilsk office of Rosprirodnadzor went to Vasily Ryabinin, then 39, a chemist, who as a local man had previously...
Norilsk Nickel has not entirely escaped scrutiny for its environmental record under Putin. The company has pledged repeatedly to invest in sulfur abatement technology. In 2010, Putin himself chaired a public meeting taking company officials to task, saying its efforts to cut pollution had been “not enough, to put it bluntly.” Two years later, Noril...
Norilsk Nickel has said it will spend at least $4.1 billion in a project called Sulfur Programme 2.0, to finally tackle the air pollution that has marred the landscape and reduced the quality of life in the Norilsk region. The company has pledged to reduce sulfur dioxide pollution at Norilsk 45 percent by 2023 and 90 percent by 2025. “Looking for t...
Dec 10, 2021 · How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, became one of the most polluted places on Earth. A smelting company has poisoned rivers, killed off forests and belched out more sulfur dioxide than active...
Oct 2, 2017 · This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on Arctic migration and urban sustainability by exploring the case of Norilsk, the first sizeable circumpolar city in the world entirely built on...
Apr 30, 2021 · Norilsk is a very polluted city, since the industry is represented by non-ferrous metallurgy. Water bodies are a fairly polluted ecosystem, both in Norilsk and in Taimyr. Although environmental activities are constantly being carried out in cities, environmental pollution remains quite high.
May 2, 2022 · According to the Blacksmith Institute (2007), Norilsk is one of the 10 most polluted cities in the world. “Norilsk Nickle” employs over a half of Norilsk’s population and the citizens have rarely protested environmental pollution.
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Aug 24, 2021 · Norilsk, the world’s northernmost city with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and for much of the 1970s and 1980s synonymous with severe industrial pollution, is no longer the dirtiest city in Russia, according to the German publication Blick, which cites a new report from the Russian Service for the Supervision of Consumer Protection, which ...
