Explosions were reported on board an oil tanker believed to be used by Russia's "shadow fleet," docked in Ust-Luga in northwest Russia, near President Vladimir Putin 's home city of St. Petersburg.

The idea of nature stewardship credits is to provide some financial reward to communities and peoples that conserve and restore the land.

Russia has continued to transport the commodity via an aging fleet whose links to Moscow are hidden, often through shell companies. The EU has been struggling to clamp down on the Russian vessels, ...

Coal miner Pembroke Resources has raised US$550 (A$880) million in the Nordic Corporate Bond Market to refinance its existing debt facilities and grow its Olive Downs metallurgical coal mine in ...