Tag: Russia
New Satellite Launches to Monitor Climate Change from Space
As of early October this year, the European Space Agency has just sent a new satellite into orbit, the Sentinel-5P, which will monitor climate change from space. The sattelite was launched by a Russian...
Killing of Olympic dogs mirrors our own solution
As human visitors pour into Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympics, thousands of stray dogs who have always called the city their home are quietly going missing.Seemingly well-fed and docile, at least from...
Russia Considers Sport Hunting Ban
If a recently introduced bill is passed by the Russian government, the country would join Costa Rica and a few other African nations in making killing animals for fun, AKA hunting, largely illegal.I dismissed...
Greenpeace occupies Russian offshore oil rig
Six activists, who spent several hours hanging off the side of a Russian floating oil platform, have ended their demonstration.The activists, including Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo, stormed Gazprom's oil platform in the Arctic...
Putin Creating Waves in Lake Baikal
In August 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, climbed into a mini-submarine for a first hand inspection of Lake Baikal. After the his tour, the former KGB agent declared the lake “ecologically clean” then...
