As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws ... It was summer in eastern Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle, in that part of Russia that’s closer to Alaska than to Moscow.
The leaked diesel oil drifted some 12km (7.5 miles) from the site of the accident Russian prosecutors have ordered checks at "particularly dangerous installations" built on permafrost after a huge ...
Ground subsidence beneath the fuel storage tanks is believed to have caused the spill. Arctic permafrost has been melting in exceptionally warm weather for this time of year. President Putin ...