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 […]
August 6, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s floating nuclear plant to make its way across the Arctic Russia is preparing to launch its audaciously conceived floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, deploying it 6,000 kilometers […]
August 5, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Sunken Soviet Sub leaking high levels of radiation, Norwegian researchers say Norwegian researchers have discovered that a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank in the Barents Sea 30 years ago, killing 41 sailors, is […]
August 2, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Mysterious 2017 cloud of radiation over Europe came from Russia, new research says New international research has suggested that an enormous radioactive cloud that covered part of Europe in 2017 was produced by a nuclear […]
July 2, 2019 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Fire aboard nuclear powered Russian submersible kills at least 14 A fire aboard a Russian deep-sea research vessel has killed at least 14 personnel, including high-ranking naval officers, all of whom were […]
June 25, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Activist from Ecodefense, under pressure from Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law, flees to Germany The head of a Russian environmental organization has been forced to flee to Germany to avoid arrest on several charges stemming from […]
June 24, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Environmentalists concerned about where Andreyeva Bay spent nuclear fuel is being sent Representatives from Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear corporation, have sought to sooth environmentalist over concerns that removing tons of […]
June 21, 2019 Hazardous chemicals, Industrial Pollution Bellona urges Russia to address ‘criminal’ shortfalls in toxic waste disposal Russia’s abiding trash wars have drawn the eye of a curious world as swelling protests in the streets and overflowing landfills in the […]
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 […]
