October 14, 2019 Renewable energy, Wind Russia’s largest wind park opens near Murmansk The chill winds lashing the Arctic coasts near Murmansk will soon provide a new sort of warming effect – a wind energy farm that will be […]
October 3, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia First fuel assemblies leave the Lepse, Russia’s most hazardous nuclear ship The first containers of nuclear fuel have been removed from the Lepse service ship, Russia’s waterborne atomic graveyard, marking a major […]
September 24, 2019 Climate change, International climate conferences Russian government finally gives tepid backing to Paris Climate Accord Russia said Monday it will implement the Paris Climate Agreement to fight climate change after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a […]
September 12, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport Russian regions push for electric car revolutions When we think of places that are working to blaze trails for emissions free electric cars, Russia hardly jumps to mind. But over the summer, […]
September 11, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan may have to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the sea Japan’s environmental minister has said the country may have to dump more than a million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the […]
September 10, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s floating nuclear plant arrives at its remote destination Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, has arrived at its remote Arctic destination after sailing 4,700 kilometers […]
September 6, 2019 Climate change, International climate conferences Russia to sign Paris Accord as ministry forecasts climate change calamities Russia’s environmental ministry has warned that the country is heating twice as fast as the rest of the world just days before Moscow is […]
September 4, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Irradiated debris from Russia’s mystery explosion washes up on Arkhangelsk beach, reports say Journalists in northern Russia say they have measured high levels of radiation near two abandoned barges, which were reportedly brought […]
September 3, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport Another e-car milestone opens on the Russian-Norwegian border The Murmansk region took another small step toward expanding infrastructure for electric cars on Friday, as officials opened a high-speed […]
August 28, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Here’s what we know so far about Russia’s mysterious radioactive blast For the past 20 days, a mysterious explosion in the White Sea area of Northern Russia that left five nuclear scientists dead has been the […]
August 26, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Fallout from Russia’s mysterious blast now suggests a reactor blew up, experts say Russia’s state weather agency said Monday that it had found the radioactive isotopes of strontium, barium and lanthanum in test samples […]
August 23, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian floating nuclear plant sets sail amid a sea of concerns Russia Friday launched the Akademik Lomonosov, an audacious and experimental floating nuclear power plant that has been more than a decade […]
August 22, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Putin says mysterious radiological blast poses no threat President Vladimir Putin has said there is no threat from a deadly explosion at a secretive military testing range – an event that […]
August 21, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Stoppage at Russian nuclear plant causes jitters Russian officials earlier this week shut off a block of the Beloyarsk nuclear power station after picking up a “false” response […]
August 20, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian radiation detectors went dark in wake of mysterious explosion Four of Russia’s nuclear monitors went silent in the days following a mysterious explosion that led to radiation spikes in the country’s […]
August 19, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian doctors not warned patients came from mysterious radioactive blast, says report Russian authorities and media continue to puzzle observers by offering contradictory information about whether victims of an August 8 rocket […]
August 16, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Radiation detected from Norway likely not from Russia’s mystery explosion Norway’s nuclear safety authority is analyzing a small amount of radioactive iodine detected in the air over the country’s north in the […]
August 15, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian officials issue confusing evacuation orders from village near radiological explosion Russian military officials have issued conflicting reports this week about whether residents in the area near a mysterious nuclear accident […]
August 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia says small nuclear reactor blew up in deadly Arctic accident The international community is racing to understand a mysterious explosion that released radiation off the coast of northern Russia last […]
August 7, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia to build two more nuclear icebreakers Russia has said it will build two new nuclear icebreakers in a bid to make a rapidly melting trade route through the Arctic accessible to […]
