2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1166+ words) This audio is automated When Kazakhstan launched Central Asia's first large-scale cloud-seeding program on May 17, it called it a high-tech response to drought, water scarcity, and accelerating desertification. Run in the southern Turkistan region in partnership with the United Arab…...

3+ week, 43+ min ago  (695+ words) Russian military vehicles are being painted with vivid stripes to baffle AI systems of Ukrainian-launched drones, experts say. Now the "cloaking" tactic has apparently launched a high-stakes game of hide and seek on the highways of Russian-held territory in Ukraine....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (427+ words) Russia's main launch facility for sending cosmonauts into space was damaged during the latest launch of a Soyuz capsule, prompting emergency repairs. The accident at the Baikonur cosmodrome will result in a suspension of all manned launches from the facility…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (733+ words) As Vladimir Putin moved down a line of military officers on Red Square in May 2025, a member of the Russian president's security detail was spotted holding an unusual weapon partially hidden under a black cloth. Since that device was spotted,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (140+ words) As Ukraine prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a new report from Greenpeace warns that failure to fully repair the plant's protective shell could lead to a "catastrophic" release of radioactive dust. A Russian drone damaged…...

2+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (72+ words) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 'There's Oil Everywhere': Burning Russian Refinery Triggers Environmental Crisis No media source currently available Oil-contaminated rain and heavy smog have blanketed the Russian port city of Tuapse after Ukrainian drone strikes hit nearby oil facilities....

2+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (685+ words) Svetlana Alexievich attends the Vilnius Book Fair in Lithuania in March 2025. Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nobel Prize'winning author Svetlana Alexievich says Belarus is still a "laboratory" in which the long-term effects of the massive radiation leak continue…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (754+ words) As Vladimir Putin moved down a line of military officers on Red Square in May 2025, a member of the Russian president's security detail was spotted holding an unusual weapon partially hidden under a black cloth. Since that device was spotted,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (17+ words) Chernobyl Dust Leak Would Be 'Catastrophic,' Warns Greenpeace Ahead Of Disaster Anniversary'Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1030+ words) Kabul could become the world's first capital to run out of water completely, experts say, blaming the crisis on rapid population growth, climate change, and mismanagement. The Afghan capital's groundwater levels have plummeted by up to 30 meters in the past…...