April 2, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia announces it will dismantle one of its nuclear icebreaking stars Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet has announced it will dismantle one of its star players, the Soviet-era behemoth the **Arktika,** a […]
March 23, 2018 Electric mobility, European Union, Future energy system Transitioning from niche to reality: revised EU legislation can foster mass replication of electric bus success stories Buses carry around half of all public transport passengers, accounting for around 8% of the EU’s transport emissions. As part of the […]
March 20, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom reportedly offering unlikely floating nuclear power deal to Sudan Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, in an apparent effort to expand its portfolio of deals abroad, has said it will build a […]
March 19, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law As Putin begins fourth term, Russia’s nonprofit sector continues to erode The results of yesterday’s presidential election in Russia surprised exactly no one and Vladimir Putin has swept to power once again for […]
March 16, 2018 Climate change, European Union, Transport IPCC Conference: Transport and cities key for decarbonisation The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change held a conference in Edmonton, Canada earlier this month to discuss recent findings and share […]
March 13, 2018 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet The environmental side of Putin’s threatening speech, annotated by Bellona President Vladimir Putin’s address to parliament last week will be remembered for reigniting a Cold War with its threats of new invincible […]
March 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Seven years after meltdown, Fukushima’s recovery still decades away Seven years ago, on the afternoon of March 11, 2011, one of the biggest earthquakes ever measured sent a wall of water rolling toward […]
March 8, 2018 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Will changes to the US Budget Act of 2018 incentivise CCS in the US? CCS in the US has over the past decade or so been primarily linked to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as its main driver. The recently passed […]
March 7, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Are Putin’s threatened missiles already polluting Europe with radioactivity? Maybe The speech Russian President Vladimir Putin gave last week, in which he threatened to make the world, particularly the United States, listen […]
March 6, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian-built nuclear plant in Hungary faces EU lawsuits Luxembourg is joining Austria in suing the European Commission for allowing Hungary to expand its Paks nuclear power plant with […]
March 5, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian nuclear icebreaker reactor sets troubling run-time record As Russia races to build a new series of flashy high tech nuclear icebreakers, some of its older Soviet-era behemoths are being pushed to […]
March 1, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport One electric car owner’s cry for help from Norway’s northern reaches Despite Norway’s unflagging devotion to electric cars, which has made it the hungriest consumer of e-cars in Europe, the country’s […]
February 28, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Tour of Russia’s floating nuclear power plant scrubbed as soon as experts show up to see it A recent tour of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, which is under construction in St. Petersburg, included many things, but […]
February 27, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russian official’s offhand remark about nuclear submarine fire ignites fresh speculation and new denials A Russian official has admitted there were missiles aboard the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine when it was ravaged by fire during repair […]
February 23, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Renewable energy, Wind Rosatom stakes out wind power to gird against blustery nuclear futures Russia’s state nuclear corporation unveiled plans this week to build up to 600 megawatts of wind energy in the Krasnodar region in […]
February 20, 2018 Arctic, Industrial Pollution, Nuclear Russia By Bellona’s measure, Russia’s Year of Ecology might not have been such a flop As Russia’s Year of Ecology ended on December 31, and the Kremlin’s year-long drive to put environmental issues first in 2017 drew to a […]
February 15, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Western scientists say a radiation leak happened at Mayak – Russia disagrees New facts have emerged to suggest a leak of ruthenium charted this autumn over Europe did, in fact, arise from a filtration error at the […]
February 14, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia’s most enthusiastic environmental group shuts down over ‘foreign agent’ accusation Russia’s foreign agent law has ground another environmental group out of existence as Akrhangelsk’s youth group Aetas – which led a […]
February 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Investor pullout leaves Rosatom at sea with its nuclear project in Turkey In a major blow to one of Russia’s most ambitious international nuclear deals, three investors backed out of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power […]
February 8, 2018 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia historic nuclear icebreaker dismantlement is going safely – just take their word for it Russia has begun the dismantlement of the Sibir nuclear icebreaker – a Soviet era superstructure that broke Arctic ice for 15 years – […]
