12 июля 201110:34
Sverdlovsk Region Has Russia’s 2-nd Worst Environment
The All-Russian Conservation Society carried out environmental monitoring of all Russian regions in June 2011, and it turned out that nearly all the environmental condition indicators in Ural Federal District were rather negative. Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (Yugra) scored a total of -3, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region scored -4, Chelyabinsk Region scored -6, Sverdlovsk Region scored -8, and only Kurgan Region had a positive score of 3, the Society reports. The quality of Sverdlovsk Region’s air was estimated as unsatisfactory. According the results of the monitoring, Sverdlovsk