March 12, 2019 Climate change, Future energy system, Industrial Pollution, Renewable energy The future of electricity and its limitations Industry, agriculture and aviation are the climate outliers still lacking tangible decarbonisation technologies. Industries will become […]
March 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Eight years after Fukushima, Japan struggles to trust nuclear power Eight years after an earthquake at sea sent a towering wall of water hurtling toward Japan’s Fukushima prefecture and the six reactors of […]
March 8, 2019 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Renewable energy Sector specific emissions and Industry’s increasing share in CO2 emissions by 2050 CO2 emissions come from many different sources. From the food we eat to the homes we live in, almost every aspect of our lives includes […]
March 7, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia strives to dust off nuclear plant it started building years ago in Bulgaria Bulgaria is moving to revive the Belene nuclear power plant seven years after the Russia project was cancelled due to funding shortfalls and […]
March 6, 2019 Arctic, Renewable energy, Wind Russia’s largest bank to back wind energy project near Murmansk By Anna Kireeva In a major advance for renewable energy in Russia, Sberbank, Moscow’s largest bank, has opened a $341 million dollar line […]
March 4, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Lithuania renews opposition to Russian-built nuclear plant in Belarus Lithuanian officials have renewed their longstanding opposition to a nuclear power plant Russia is building in neighboring Belarus, this […]
March 4, 2019 Climate change, European Union A Reality Check VS. The Paris Agreement After several failed attempts at achieving agreement on collective global action to tackle the growing threat of climate change, the 2015 […]
March 1, 2019 Access to information, Nikitin Case, Russian human rights issues From embattled beginnings, Bellona Murmansk marks its 25-year anniversary Twenty-five years ago, a small, youthful group of environmentalists in Murmansk was drawing the scrutiny of the Russian security services. […]
February 28, 2019 Climate change, European Union, Future energy system, Renewable energy Building Smart, Green and High: What the EU can learn from Singapore As a kid everyone dreamed at some point about living in a tree house. What if this dream becomes the reality of today? Walking to the room […]
February 27, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian official confirms plans to build behemoth nuclear icebreaker Russian officials have said they will back the overhaul of an ailing Far Eastern shipyard in order to build an enormous nuclear icebreaker […]
February 27, 2019 Electric mobility, European Union, Transport Clean Vehicles Directive: a welcome push for cleaner transport, held back by the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Directive Bellona welcomes the provisional agreement on the revision of the Clean Vehicles Directive which will send a positive signal to the market […]
February 26, 2019 Climate change Trump’s is losing in his assault on the environment Since the Trump administration came to power two years ago, it has led a hostile assault on environmental regulation, seeking to knock down […]
February 26, 2019 Transport Finding the route to zero emission cruise A recent seminar organized by Bellona, uncovered a substantial gap between political goals and the cruise industry’s ability to […]
February 22, 2019 Climate change, European Union Children saving the Planet from Adults? 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden was once, in her own words, “invisible”, but is now the leading figure of a new climate movement […]
February 20, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Moscow bans the Barents Observer from Russian Internet In a chilling broadside against the independent press, Moscow has blocked further publication of the Barents Observer, a Norwegian news […]
February 18, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Nuclear reactor near St Petersburg Russia back online after weekend hiccup The No 1 reactor at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II that was taken offline due to an unknown system failure before the weekend was […]
February 14, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom reportedly reaching new deal to complete Turkish nuclear plant Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, is close to reaching an agreement for a new partner in a nuclear power plant it is building […]
February 13, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Norway’s radiation officials detect slight uptick of radioactive iodine in the air Norwegian authorities have reported trace amounts of radioactive iodine 131 in the atmosphere, which emerged last week in measurements taken […]
February 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia set to decommission the world’s most remote nuclear power plant Russia’s government has approved plans to begin decommissioning what are perhaps the most secluded commercial nuclear reactors in the […]
February 11, 2019 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russian industrial giant promises to stop polluting Norway Officials at a Russian nickel smelting works that released dangerous air pollution into Northern Norway last month have said they are taking […]
