Last year's Pakistan floods and Russian fires were of opposite natures and more than 1,500 miles apart, but they were closely linked, a study by NASA researchers revealed.

Around 300 wildfires in Russia forced the country to suffer the hottest summer in her history. The wildfires caused nearly $15 billion in damages and killed as many as 56,000 people.

According to the information that Russian officials shared with the media, the last-week crash of an unmanned cargo vessel has prompted the delay of the launch of the country’s next mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Orbiting observatory, the International Space Station (ISS), will be plunged into the Pacific Ocean after its mission ends in around 2020, Russia's Federal Space Agency said.

The decision to crash the massive observatory in the Pacific Ocean has been taken to ensure that no junk is left in space.

Vitaly Davydov, deputy chief of Roskosmos space agency said, "After it completes its existence, we will be forced to sink the ISS. It cannot be left in orbit, it's too complex, too heavy an object, it can leave behind lots of rubbish.”

According to reports, Chechnya intends to ban the sales of energy drinks to people under the age of 18, expressing that it is ‘un-Islamic and dangerous’.

Russia on Monday will launch the RadioAstron, the biggest ever space telescope that was first conceived during the Cold War.

All set to be launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, the RadioAstron merely has a 10-meter antenna, but it will be launched at a distance almost as far away from Earth as the moon, thus creating a "dish" that will be
30 times the Earth's diameter.

On Friday, UN representatives have reported that Russia with the ex-Soviet bloc are stepping ahead for HIV prevention programs to stop the rapid spread of this deadly disease but stigma and domestic drug policies are blocking their way for further movement.