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Thinking the Unthinkable: Fires in Russia Fan Nuclear Fears

(Aug. 11) -- The United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars and years of effort to help Russia secure its nuclear stockpiles from what is euphemistically referred to as "diversion." But the 600 wildfires raging across the Russian countryside spotlight another risk to the nuclear-industrial complex: natural...

Russian Wildfires Raise Chernobyl Radiation Fears

MOSCOW (Aug. 11) -- Russian emergency workers have increased forest patrols in a western region previously contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, trying to prevent wildfires from spreading harmful radiation, officials said Wednesday. At least six wildfires were spotted in the Bryansk region this week - the...

Historic Russian Wildfires and Heat Wave: Top 9 Questions Answered

(Aug. 10) -- As the death toll increases and the fires and heat rage on in Russia, Surge Desk answers your top nine questions about the environmental, humanitarian and economic crisis. 1. Where are the Russian wildfires? The fires are mainly in western Russia, many of them near Moscow, and eastern Siberia. The map below,...

Report: Wildfires Cost Russia Billions in Damage

MOSCOW (Aug. 10) -- Hundreds of wildfires that has swept western Russia and cloaked Moscow in suffocating smog has caused billions of dollars in damage, a newspaper said Tuesday. The business daily Kommersant said the damage from the fires was expected to amount to about $15 billion - or about one percent of the country's...