Russia - Environment
As far as the environment of Russia is concerned, there have been air pollution from heavy industry, coal-fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and seacoasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from agricultural chemicals; nuclear waste disposal; scattered areas of radioactive contamination; groundwater contamination from toxic waste; urban solid-waste management; abandoned stocks of pesticides. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Russia
| Climate | We have ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast |
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| Revenue from forest resources | |
| Revenue from coal | |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 60 million tons (2012 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 4.53 trillion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Yenisey-Angara - 5,539 km; Ob-Irtysh - 5,410 km; Amur river mouth (shared with China [s] and Mongolia) - 4,444 km; Lena - 4,400 km; Volga - 3,645 km; Kolyma - 2,513 km; Ural river source (shared with Kazakhstan [m]) - 2,428 km; Dnepr (Dnieper) river source (shared with Belarus and Ukraine [m]) - 2,287 km; Don - 1,870 km; Pechora - 1,809 km note: [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 17.15 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 29.03 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 18.64 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 8.88 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 1,732.03 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 851.52 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 13.2% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 7.4% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 5.6% (2022 est.) |
| Forest | 49.8% (2022 est.) |
| Other | 37.1% (2022 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 75.3% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.11% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023). |
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