September 25, 2017 Electric mobility, Energy Efficiency Will new EU buildings law help pave the way for an electro-mobile future? The ongoing reform of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) offers a once-in-a-decade opportunity to make European buildings […]
September 25, 2017 Ukraine Енергетичний дороговказ Тетяна Кармелюк Нова Енергетична стратегія України до 2035 року, нещодавно […]
September 21, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Officials still house hunting in Northwest Russia for a place to store nuclear waste Russia’s uncertain search for a place to store its low level radioactive waste has again focused on areas surrounding Murmansk, […]
September 20, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Controversial Rosatom reactor build in Finland gets delayed Difficulties Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is having keeping up with Finnish safety standards has once again delayed […]
September 20, 2017 European Union, Fossil fuels, Transport Europe’s auto industry greenwashing diesel in attempt to save its dying technology Two years after the Dieselgate scandal, a new report reveals that diesel vehicles are even worse for human health and the environment, than […]
September 18, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences Reports of Trump sticking with Paris not as inaccurate as the White House says The weekend brought swirling reports that the Trump administration was rethinking its rowdy withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, […]
September 15, 2017 Ukraine Світ у 2050: 50% відновлювальних джерел, людство вперше споживає менше енергії Тетяна Кармелюк Нове дослідження, опубліковане 4 вересня консалтинговим […]
September 14, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Feisty mayor in Russia’s Far East wants his nuclear trash collected While lighthouses run on atomic batteries in Russia have become rare, especially along the coasts of the Baltic and Barents Seas, they still […]
September 13, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Prosecutors reveal reluctance of Russian officials to enforce environmental fines Russian prosecutors say the country’s environmental oversight agency has failed to chase down $70 million in fines from polluters in the […]
September 13, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Norwegian elections results highlight the need for climate technologies While climate centered parties made gains in Norway’s parliamentary elections, they weren’t enough to send the country’s government to […]
September 11, 2017 Climate change During Hurricane Irma, it’s safer not to mention climate change After the devastation wreaked by Harvey on Houston – destruction well in line with climate scientists’ predictions – you might have […]
September 7, 2017 Climate change Sahara Forest Project makes sci-fi desert grown cucumbers a reality As monster storms inundate coastal cities and rising temperatures parch farmlands and fan wildfires, farmers of the future will wish there […]
September 7, 2017 Ukraine Час вуглець викидати, час і… закопувати Тетяна Кармелюк Щоб cтримати глобальне потепління людству вже скоро […]
September 6, 2017 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia retires trailblazing icebreaker, with regret Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet is decommissioning one of its Cold War behemoths, the Sovietsky Soyuz, amid mixed reports that it was […]
September 5, 2017 Electric mobility, Transport Grab a green cab – Oslo’s strategy towards a zero emission taxi fleet One of the contributors to increased emissions, local air pollution and congestion, is the growing number of urban duty and service […]
September 4, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Youth ecology and recycling group named newest Russian ‘foreign agent’ Mere days after an apparent softening of the foreign agent law, Russia’s Justice Ministry has targeted a group that organizes youth trash […]
August 31, 2017 Arctic Murmansk works to lift ecologically hazardous sunken ships A rural area in Russia’s far northwest near Murmansk has begun tackling the problem of raising from the Arctic more than a hundred […]
August 30, 2017 Climate change Note From New Orleans: A view of Harvey through the memories of Katrina New Orleans awoke this week with a sense of dread it hadn’t experienced in 12 years. Hurricane Harvey had come ashore in neighboring Texas […]
August 29, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Hungary moves forward with politically dicey nuclear plant Political intrigue deepened and protestors turned out as Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Budapest to give another nod to […]
August 28, 2017 Industrial Pollution How to get rid of the coal dust choking Murmansk? Call Putin! A few weeks ago, Russia’s northern port of Murmansk, which spends much of the year swathed in a choking coal haze from its commercial […]
