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 […]
May 2, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping What is the real price of Russia’s Arctic dream? The Kremlin is approaching the Northern Sea Route on an almost war-like footing. New ice-class ships are under construction to help bear out […]
April 29, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Fukushima cleanup hits a milestone as worker remove nuclear fuel rods Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, owner of Japan’s ruined Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, began removing radioactive fuel rods earlier […]
April 26, 2019 Nuclear issues, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Norway shutters its last nuclear research reactor, cheering environmentalists Norway has announced that it will close its last nuclear research reactor after 50 years of operation and a checkered past characterized by […]
April 25, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Reactors on Russia’s floating nuclear plant reach full capacity The reactors aboard the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, have been brought to 100 percent capacity and is ready […]
April 24, 2019 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil For all of Russia’s talk about oil drilling in the Arctic, most Arctic oil will likely go untouched Despite owning some 80 percent of the oil and gas resources tucked under the Arctic shelf, as well as a bulk of explored reserves, Russia […]
April 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Questionable Russian-owned company caught up in Ukrainian nuclear reactor deal As Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko, faces a run off in the country’s elections, he has issued a decree to his cabinet to act […]
April 10, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Norway and Russia to visit sunken Komsomolets sub three decades after it sank This summer, Norwegian and Russian scientists will plumb the depths of one of the Cold War’s most enduring legends – the Komsomolets […]
April 8, 2019 Industrial Pollution Murmansk port hopes huge screens will trap its coal dust Officials at the Murmansk Commercial Seaport have raised a fence they hope will trap the smog of soot rising from the coal stockpiles laying […]
April 5, 2019 Climate change, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil Norway’s huge oil fund makes major shift to renewable energy In a major move to spread the use of green energy, Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund has announced that it will begin investing […]
April 3, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Rosneft steps in to make good on Putin’s Arctic development plans As the Moscow scrambles to fulfill a presidential decree demanding an unprecedented boost in cargo volumes flowing through the Northern Sea […]
April 2, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Anxious Russian ministry says billions are needed for Arctic buildup Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources has calculated that the Arctic needs some $160 billion of new investment to realize a presidential […]
April 1, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport As of last month, nearly 60 percent of new cars sold in Norway are electric Almost 60 percent of all new cars sold in Norway in March were fully electric, said the Norwegian Road Federation on Monday, setting a new […]
March 28, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport What could make electric cars more useful — and less like UFOs — to Russians? While sightings of electric cars have become commonplace in many European countries, why are they still so exotic to Russian eyes? When will […]
March 26, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport Finnish politicians campaign on electric cars Finland hasn’t reached the stellar heights of its Scandinavian neighbors when it comes to the sale of electric cars. But if the […]
March 25, 2019 Climate change, International climate conferences Norway’s young walk out of school to demand climate action Norwegian school children on Friday took part in a nationwide walkout from classes to protest adult failures to come to grips with climate […]
