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Norilsk, Russia. Population 177,000. It's the northernmost city in the world — and the most toxic. Filmmaker Victoria Fiore spent two years trying to gain ac...
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Discover Norilsk, Russia—a city where the sun doesn't set for months. Uncover how its people thrive in extreme conditions! #Norilsk #MidnightSun #ArcticLife ...
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Jun 3, 2020 · ☀️Norilsk is an industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located above the Arctic Circle, east of the Yenisei River and south of the western Taymyr Peninsula. It has a permanent...
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Jul 23, 2023 · NORILSK, Russia -- Photographer Aleksandr Kharitonov grew up in the remote Russian mining city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle. His images of its landscapes, remnants of its Soviet...
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- 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...
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- Marianne Lavelle,Inside Climate News
Mar 21, 2019 · In our latest Through the Lens, Russian photographer Elena Chernyshova explores what it’s like to live in a city 400km north of the Arctic Circle.
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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.
