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A chapel made almost entirely of timber has been completed in Finchley, north London in memory of the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Designed by Spheron Architects, the Belarusian Memorial Chapel will serve...

We meet the people most affected by the nuclear catastrophe, from the Pripyat evacuee to the daughter of a KGB first responder

Three generations explain how their lives were transformed by the nuclear explosion in 1986

One of the last remaining untouched forests in Europe will be opened up to logging activity, according to Poland’s environment minister. Around 180,000 cubic meters (6.4 million cubic feet) of wood will be taken from Bialowieza...

The rounded arena was scheduled to open two years ago, but due to construction delays the building has just now been inaugurated. Inspired by the structure of living cells, the architects enveloped the stadium in a perforated...

Tatyana Novikova says new Russian-funded nuclear power plant bypassed official planning regulations and violates international conventions

Although the exterior of the stadium is certainly eye-catching thanks to the assortment of blob-shaped holes that cover the building, the building's unique design is more than just aesthetic...

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Sergei Grits' frosty landscape is an exercise in contrast and composition

Last week I wrote a little about the planned production of heavy oil from the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela and used that as the basis for a discussion on API gravity and refinery gains...

Europe anxious for solution to growing rift between Moscow and Minsk as row over 'unpaid bills' escalatesThe president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, today halted the flow of Russian gas across his territory to Europe...

I hadn’t actually been paying much attention to the Russian:Belarus dispute over oil supplies. After the annual debacles that we are used to over natural gas supplies that flow from Russia to Western Europe through Ukraine,...