The project helping Russian reporters speak out about environmental abuse

A new initiative timed with the UN climate summit hopes to inspire journalists at a time when their government's reliance on fossil fuels is on the rise

Russia's environment has it rough. For close to a century, successive leaders have attempted to bend nature to their will in the drive for economic growth.

Under Stalin, planners tried to make Siberian rivers run south rather than north, Khrushchev dreamed of growing corn in the Arctic circle and attempts were made under Brezhnev to unlock tight oil using nuclear explosives.