NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What Country Has the Greatest Value of Natural Resources? It’s estimated that Russia’s natural resources are valued at $75 trillion. They include crude oil, natural gas, coal, and rare earth metals. In 2021, it ranked third in the world in the production of industrial diamonds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates, and gold, and the forests of Siberia contain an estimated one-fifth of the world’s timber, mainly conifers (see fig. 8; Environmental Conditions, ch. 3).

Detailed explanation-3: -Russia’s environmental problems include water and air pollution, radioactive contamination, pollution from its space program, industrial pollution, leaks from oil and gas pipelines, and declining biodiversity, Yablokov said.

Detailed explanation-4: -Melting permafrost will degrade infrastructure across 70 percent of Russia’s landmass (210). Droughts, floods, and extreme weather events will make parts of Russia less habitable and economically productive. This will drive economic migration, pushing rural populations into already crowded cities.