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Jul 23, 2023 · The remote Russian city of Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, is known for its history of forced labor camps, mining, and railways. Photojournalist Aleksandr Kharitonov, who grew up there,...
Jun 12, 2022 · Norilsk today is the most polluted city in Russia, and one of the top-ten most polluted cities on the planet. Every year, the nickel plant pumps out more than two million tons of toxic gas,...
- Dying Forests and Pollution Visible from Space
- A ‘Mountain River’ of Diesel Fuel
- Putin Plays ‘The Good Czar’
- ‘We Kill Our Children and Leave Them A Trash Heap’
The story of Norilsk’s pollution is written in the trees: 5.9 million acres of dead and dying boreal forest downwind from the Norilsk Nickel compound — a scar larger than New Jersey, slashed into the largest forested region on Earth. In tree ring samples, scientists havepinpointed the great rush of sulfur dioxide pollution that began in 1942, when ...
Klyushin and other local environmental activists agitated for years for Rosprirodnadzor, the Russian environmental protection agency, to establish an office in Norilsk. They succeeded early last year, and the job of chief deputy went to Vasily Ryabinin, then 39, a chemist, who had previously worked at Norilsk Nickel but left after his beloved mento...
Putin reacted sharply to news of the diesel spill last year, which came only weeks after he unveileda new strategic plan for the Arctic, a vision of resource development and environmental protection going hand in hand. “Why did the authorities find out about this only two days later?” Putin asked in avideo conference callwith regional and company o...
Norilsk Nickel, pledging to cut sulfur dioxide emissions by 90 percent by 2025, has said it will spend at least $4.1 billion on a project calledSulphur Programme 2.0. “In my opinion, the implementation of the project will fundamentally change the ecological situation in our city,” Norilsk’s current mayor, Dmitry Kasarev, who previously worked for N...
5 days ago · Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Norilsk, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 8 stories have been published about Norilsk which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
Dec 10, 2021 · Photographer Elena Chernyshova captures life in Norilsk, Russia—one of the world's darkest, coldest and most polluted cities.
Jun 13, 2022 · Norilsk today is the most polluted city in Russia, and one of the top-10 most polluted cities on the planet. Every year, the nickel plant pumps out more than two million tonnes of toxic gas, including sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon, phenols and more. Around 1 per cent of total global sulphur dioxide emissions come from this one city.
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Nov 8, 2017 · Every day for two years, filmmaker Victoria Fiore tried to gain access to a toxic, closed city in Siberia with no ground transportation connections to the rest of the world.
