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 […]
June 10, 2019 Arctic Norway’s Lofoten Islands work to ease tourism’s burden on nature As one Norway’s most beautiful places, the Lofoten Islands attract millions of tourists each year from all around the world. Now those […]
June 7, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport What will it take for electric cars to catch on in Russia? Will electric cars ever catch on in Russia? It’s a question that’s been deviling local environmentalists since e-cars took neighboring […]
June 5, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia HBO’s Chernobyl offers a chilling environmental parable In one of the more haunting scenes of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, whose fifth and final episode was aired on Monday, a group of Soviet […]
June 3, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia The Leningrad nuclear plant gets a clean review from the UN nuclear watchdog The Leningrad Nuclear Power plant has strengthened operational safety in response to a review of one of its elderly reactor units conducted […]
May 31, 2019 Climate change Teaching climate change in Russia: One instructor’s observations For the past two months, Taina Peltonoen, a master’s degree student in environmental policy from Finland’s Tampere University, has […]
May 28, 2019 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia launches new nuclear icebreaker in bid for Arctic dominance Russia launched a nuclear icebreaker on Saturday as part of an ambitious program to renew and expand its fleet of ice-class vessels in order […]
May 24, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Russian-Chinese relations are warming the Arctic If the Kremlin meets its goal of transforming the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route into a bustling commercial shipping passage, it may end up […]
May 22, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russia begins removing spent nuclear fuel rods from its most radioactive ship Officials at the Nerpa Shipyard near Murmansk said they have begun removing hundreds of spent nuclear assemblies, many of them damaged from […]
May 20, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia dismantles one of it nuclear icebreaking legends Officials at the Nerpa shipyard near Murmansk have said they plan to offload the reactor of the retired Arktika nuclear icebreaker by […]
May 15, 2019 Arctic, Climate change Murmansk school kids have big ambitions to tackle environmental problems Household garbage, coal dust, the pollution floating in the waters of Kola Bay and smogs of industrial emissions — these are just a few of […]
May 14, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Turkey’s official media has a bone to pick with Rosatom, but it might be more about money than safety The Turkish nuclear regulator has repeatedly found cracks in the foundation of the Russian-built Akkuyu nuclear power plant, a report in a […]
May 13, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom claims its foreign business will double over the next five years Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, expects to double its annual revenue from foreign projects to some $15 billion by 2024, […]
May 9, 2019 Climate change Climate change finally the most important issue to US Democratic voters. Will it last until Election Day? For the past few American presidential election cycles, climate change has been the issue candidates can be counted on to steer clear of. […]
May 7, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping US Secretary of State calls Russia’s Arctic ambitions ‘illegal’ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that Russia’s efforts to control an Arctic shipping lane were illegal, marking the first […]
May 6, 2019 Bioenergy, Renewable energy, Solar, Wind America’s renewable energy output is surpassing coal for the first time ever Green energy sources like solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric surpassed coal for the first time ever in the United States last month, and […]
May 2, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia launches the world’s longest nuclear submarine Russia has launched what it bills as the longest nuclear submarine ever built at a ceremony last month in the Arctic port of Severodvinsk […]
