January 23, 2018 Arctic, Climate change, International climate conferences Arctic Forum seeks evasive balance between economic development and environmental preservation The Arctic is a huge, sparsely populated region with a complex climatic conditions and containing large energy and bio-resources. It’s […]
January 22, 2018 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia French reporters fined for trying to track Mayak’s ruthenium leak to its source A group of French journalists in Russia were fined for trying to track down the source of a radioactive cloud that European regulators have […]
January 18, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Official vote of confidence for Russia’s floating nuclear plant fails to reassure Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, has received its approval for operation from the country’s State […]
January 17, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport Electric car owners in Vladivostok unite to mount Russia’s newest protest movement An environmentally minded protest for the rights of electric car owners is coming from an unlikely place: Vladivostok, Russia. The […]
January 16, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian lawmakers take a giant step toward blacklisting individuals as ‘foreign agents’ Russia’s parliament, the Duma, has passed in the first reading amendments that would allow the government to name individuals as […]
January 15, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Attack on Russian environmentalist linked to lavish mansion for Putin’s prime minister In an explosive allegation, Russian investigative journalists have reported that a prominent environmental activist may have been beaten […]
January 10, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, Sochi Olympic Games Russian group that highlighted Olympic environmental graft cleared from ‘foreign agent’ list A Russian environmental non-profit that made its name revealing luxury vacation homes and corrupt construction deals connected to Kremlin […]
January 9, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Ukraine announces its dependence on Russian made nuclear fuel is waning Igor Nasalyk, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal took the step of saying his country can survive without nuclear fuel imports from […]
January 8, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport A small spark from Bellona fuels Norway’s eco-friendly car explosion Norway has come a long way since 1987, when Bellona’s president, Frederic Hauge, plugged the organization’s first electric car into an […]
January 4, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia lawmakers push to punish individuals, not just organizations, with ‘foreign agent’ label A group of Russian legislators have suggested expanding the country’s law on NGOs so that individuals, not just organizations, can be […]
January 3, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia official announces plans to build space age nuclear icebreakers Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s colorful deputy prime minister, has again made headlines by claiming the country will build a series of advanced […]
January 2, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, Sochi Olympic Games Russian environmental activist who exposed illegal mansions for Putin cronies beaten and hospitalized The leader of a crusading Russian environmental group that has worked to expose corrupt land grabs in the country’s Black Sea region, was […]
December 20, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norilsk Nickel offers a sketch of how it will reduce its sulfur dioxide pollution Norilsk Nickel, which has time and again made its hometown one of the most polluted places on earth, has announced plans to slash dirty […]
December 19, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Floating nuclear plant’s rectors to fire up in Murmansk Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has dispelled the cloud of mystery it had created about where and when, exactly, it plans to […]
December 14, 2017 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s Mayak issues partial admission to radioactive ruthenium leak A senior official at the Mayak Chemical Combine has taken a small step toward admitting that a radioactive isotope discovered over Europe […]
December 13, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Atomflot floats possibility of building yet more newline icebreakers Atomflot, Russia’s nuclear icebreaker port, is reportedly in talks with government ministries in an effort to secure two more multibillion […]
December 12, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Donors pledge more funding to remove broken nuclear fuel at Andreyeva Bay Donor nations backing the cleanup of Andreyeva Bay, one of Russia’s most deviling Cold War legacy projects, have agreed to put more […]
December 11, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Moscow issues suspiciously repetitive denials about radioactive leak Moscow has again insisted that a spike in the radioactive isotope ruthenium 106 detected over Europe as well as by Russia’s own weather […]
December 7, 2017 Renewable energy, Solar Chernobyl’s nuclear wasteland primed for solar power explosion Some would be rightly spooked by the idea of electricity produced by a glowing source emanating from Chernobyl, but thanks to a €100 […]
December 6, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Kola plant director stumps for new nuclear capacity that no one needs At current, all four reactors at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant near Murmansk are expected to run fully twice as long as their originally […]
