October 18, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian officials admit that sanctions are throwing nuclear icebreaker plans behind While Russian authorities assert that their newest and most powerful icebreaker, the Arktika, will be ready to take to the seas in 2019, […]
October 16, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norilsk Nickel, polluting giant, declares new age of eco-transparency Norilsk Nickel, the Russian Arctic’s industrial giant, tried to break from its environmentally hostile history by inviting Bellona to an […]
October 12, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences Is there anything behind Putin’s bogus clean energy statistics? Last week, President Vladimir Putin, who has now been in office nearly as long as Brezhnev and exhibits many of the same droning tendencies, […]
October 11, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences What Trump’s latest threat to the climate will mean in court As California is reduced to ash by raging wildfires fueled by drought, and the Gulf of Mexico catalogues the destruction wrought by its […]
October 9, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russia and Norway make progress on cross-border environmental problems Russian and Norwegian environmentalists and politicians gathering in the industrial town of Nikel to tote up advances in cross-border […]
October 6, 2017 Electric mobility, Transport Bellona’s Murmansk e-car charger scoops up Russian government award What started as a small gesture to help a few electric car owners North of Russia’s Arctic Circle juice up their rides has blossomed into […]
October 5, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia to answer for its ‘foreign agent’ law in European Court of Human Rights Russia’s Justice Ministry is finally ready to offer a defense of its “foreign agent” law which says the 2012 legislation has actually […]
October 4, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom announces new fueling dates for its floating nuclear plant Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom now says it will fuel its first floating nuclear power plant by October 2018 after it has been […]
October 2, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel The worst nuclear disaster you’ve never heard of celebrates its 60th birthday In the history of nuclear disasters, it’s easy to forget that a radioactive explosion back in 1957 near an obscure village with an […]
September 28, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet What can Russia learn from its flashy new nuclear icebreaker push? Russia last week held a launching ceremony for a powerful nuclear icebreaker, called the Sibir, as part of its drive to cobble together a […]
September 26, 2017 Industrial Pollution, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law New Russian pollution report long on scary data, short on solutions In another surprisingly frank pronouncement on Russia’s health, the country’s environmental oversight agency has said 16 million of its […]
September 25, 2017 Fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico oil spill Chemicals used in Deepwater Horizon spill are harmful to people, study proves – finally Last week, the National Institutes of Health in the United States released a report that confirmed people living along the Gulf of Mexico […]
September 21, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Officials still house hunting in Northwest Russia for a place to store nuclear waste Russia’s uncertain search for a place to store its low level radioactive waste has again focused on areas surrounding Murmansk, […]
September 20, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Controversial Rosatom reactor build in Finland gets delayed Difficulties Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is having keeping up with Finnish safety standards has once again delayed […]
September 18, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences Reports of Trump sticking with Paris not as inaccurate as the White House says The weekend brought swirling reports that the Trump administration was rethinking its rowdy withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, […]
September 14, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Feisty mayor in Russia’s Far East wants his nuclear trash collected While lighthouses run on atomic batteries in Russia have become rare, especially along the coasts of the Baltic and Barents Seas, they still […]
September 13, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Prosecutors reveal reluctance of Russian officials to enforce environmental fines Russian prosecutors say the country’s environmental oversight agency has failed to chase down $70 million in fines from polluters in the […]
September 13, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Norwegian elections results highlight the need for climate technologies While climate centered parties made gains in Norway’s parliamentary elections, they weren’t enough to send the country’s government to […]
September 11, 2017 Climate change During Hurricane Irma, it’s safer not to mention climate change After the devastation wreaked by Harvey on Houston – destruction well in line with climate scientists’ predictions – you might have […]
September 7, 2017 Climate change Sahara Forest Project makes sci-fi desert grown cucumbers a reality As monster storms inundate coastal cities and rising temperatures parch farmlands and fan wildfires, farmers of the future will wish there […]
