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New York Times: Russia tests a climate innovation

Published Nov. 6, 2021 at 1:51 pm

An aerial picture taken on Jan. 4, 2018 shows a photochemical smog over the city of Krasnoyarsk. Weary of local officials dismissing the deadly smog that covers their city, the people of Siberia's industrial city of Krasnoyarsk decided to take up the challenge and monitor air quality themselves.

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PEVEK — The water was hot, steamy, and plentiful, and Pavel Rozhkov let it flow over his body, enjoying a shower that is not for the squeamish: On his bare skin, he was feeling the heat produced by an atomic reaction, pumped directly from a nuclear reactor into his home.