Moscow needs to listen to Russia’s turning toxic tide
In a year of serious climatic warnings, Russia still pays lip service to environmental issues, which may yet backfire on its leaders
14 October 2020 - 12:12
In October, surfers on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula began to complain of eye pain and corneal burns. Some fell ill. Dead octopus, star fish and sea urchins began to wash up on the beach. Yellow foam was visible from space.
Local officials have reacted with unusual transparency to the environmental disaster. It still took too long for wide-ranging investigations to get underway. In a country vulnerable to the consequences of global warming by virtue of its frozen expanses and coastlines, better oversight is sorely overdue...
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