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The Green Arctic inter-regional eco-social organization was established in 2014 to attract volunteers to Arctic cleanup missions

Scrap metal from Vilkitsky Island in Kara Sea to be removed in 2022 Since 2017, Green Arctic’s volunteers continue the cleanup mission on the uninhibited Vilkitsky Island in the Kara Sea Green Arctic Organization’s Chairman Evgeny Rozhkovsky© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS TASS, June 1. The scrap metal, which volunteers of the Green Arctic organization will collect in summer during a final expedition to the uninhibited Vilkitsky Island in the Yamalo-Nenets Region, will be removed in 2022, the organization’s Chairman Evgeny Rozhkovsky told TASS. Read also Since 2017, Green Arctic’s ...

For six weeks, the applicants participated in webinars, took tests in ecology

Polar clean ups: Fighting pollution in the Russian Arctic Georgy Andreev/Green Arctic archive The remnants of the Soviet Arctic exploration are still there, in the form of old barrels used to store petrol. Toxic materials which are still leaking out of them pollute the biosphere. And there’s more to it. According to calculations made in 2017, just in the coastal zones of the Arctic Ocean, there were up to four million tons of industrial and construction waste, as well as up to 12 million iron barrels. Between 2015 and 2017, the Russian army held a major clean up operation i...

Final ecology expedition to Vilkitsky Island in Arctic is due in July he task: to clean the island, assist in sorting and uploading of scrap metal, assistance to scientists in collecting samples," the Green Arctic eco-social organization said TASS, February 3. Volunteers of the Green Arctic eco-social organization will continue the cleanup on the uninhibited Vilkitsky Island on July 15. It will be the final expedition to the island, the organization posted on the VKontakte network. "The fifth (final) ecology expedition to the Vilkitsky Island. The term is July 15 - August 15. The task: to cle...