June 21, 2019 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution Bellona urges Russia to address ‘criminal’ shortfalls in toxic waste disposal Russia’s abiding trash wars have drawn the eye of a curious world as swelling protests in the streets and overflowing landfills in the […]
June 19, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Visitors are flocking to Chernobyl, but is it safe, or right? As Scandinavians head off for vacations next month, their preferred destinations are unlikely to include spots so contaminated by […]
June 17, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s Novovoronezh nuclear plant starts up a new reactor The second unit of the Novovoronezh II nuclear power plant south of Moscow has gone into pilot commercial operation, Rosenergoatom, […]
June 13, 2019 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russian officials name most polluted regions Officials have said that Murmansk Region ranks among those with the most polluted air in the country, according to a new report published by […]
June 12, 2019 Russian human rights issues Russia’s garbage protests raise central questions about the right to a clean environment A new spate of trash protests have rocked a small town in the Arkhangelsk region of northern Russia as some 5,000 locals turned out to […]
