The volume of annual runoff of almost all of Russia’s rivers will be substantially affected by global climate change, the Emergencies Ministry’s Natural Disaster Center said. Owing to the expected shifts in temperature and rainfall amounts, the annual runoff of rivers located in the Central and the Volga federal districts will change significantly by 2015 – in comparison with today’s levels, winter river runoff will increase by 60-90 percent and the summer runoff will rise by 20-50 percent,” the center’s head Vladislav Bolov said. Read More
