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A rare black Australian swan was beaten to death in a zoo in Kaliningrad, Russia’s exclave on the Baltic Sea, the zoo’s deputy director said on Thursday.
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Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s white tigress Tigryulya on Monday gave birth to four cubs in a private Simferopol zoo, facility’s owner Oleh Zubkov said.
Russian mid-sized oil firm Bashneft has halted work at the Trebs oilfield in the Nenets Autonomous Area in the Russian Arctic to investigate a recent oil spill at the site, the regional administration said on Saturday.
Over 3,000 hectares of forests are on fire in Siberia, the Emergencies Ministry’s regional center reported on Thursday.
Russian environmental activists have praised Russia's eco-policy recently approved by President Dmitry Medvedev but said they were expecting the implementation of the plans outlined in the document.
The spring weather broke a 26-year record in Moscow on April 28, hitting 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), Internet portal Meteonovosti said.
A strong spring flood has caused damage to the road system of Russia’s Volga republic of Mordovia estimated at 500 million rubles ($17 million), Russia’s Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin said on Thursday.
Eerie green clouds that floated over the Russian capital on Thursday, prompting wild online rumors, were colored by pollen released by the explosive blooming of birch trees in the capital, emergency officials said.
Environment champion Yevgenia Chirikova set up a reward of 1 million rubles ($34,000) for anyone who wins a court battle to protect three Moscow region forests in danger of partial demolition.
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A bear that ran away from a wildlife sanctuary in northeastern Latvia had to be killed because it was impossible to return it to its enclosure in the Ligatne Nature Trails preserve, local media reported.
Ukraine is currently working on an expanded governmental program aimed at sprucing up the contaminated territories adjacent to the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Monday.
Latvian police are searching for a bear that ran away from a wildlife sanctuary in Latvia’s northeastern Vidzeme region on Sunday evening, local police said.
An incident that has led to oil spill has occurred on April 20 at Russia’s Arctic Trebs oil field, the regional Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday.
The area covered by wildfires in Russia, mostly in Siberia and the Far East, stood at 8,600 hectares, with dozens of houses destroyed in a village in the Amur region on Friday, emergency officials said.
Share prices in the Russian-British oil joint venture accelerated their fall on Thursday afternoon on news that Russia’s environmental watchdog intended to take legal action to claim damages from the company for oil spills in the Siberian Rivers.
The growing population of gray wolves in Russia’s northern republic of Yakutia has killed more than 1,700 domestic reindeer since the beginning of the year, a spokesman for the republic’s veterinary department said on Thursday.
Russia may lift its ban on Egyptian potato imports if Russian experts are allowed to check their safety before they are supplied to the domestic market, food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Wednesday.
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rocked central Chile 122 kilometers (about 75 miles) from the country's capital Santiago on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 will have serious consequences for the global economy and nuclear energy. 
