Four years ago, the World Commission on Water named the Volga one of the planet's most polluted rivers, with an estimated 42 tonnes of toxic waste being poured into it each year, almost all of it ...

Rosprirodnadzor: the water area of the Volga River in Astrakhan is polluted with petroleum products | AKM.RU ...

Rosprirodnadzor has identified contamination of the Volga River in the area of ship sedimentation at the mooring wall of the Lotos shipyard near the city of Narimanov. This is stated in the message of ...

Water levels in the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, have dropped to historic lows, Russian state news agency TASS reported this week, citing an Astrakhan-based research ...