September 23, 2020 Climate change Death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg makes environmental law vulnerable The passing of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg could have profound implications for America’s fundamental environmental laws and…
September 17, 2020 Climate change Hurricanes and fires lash two US coasts, heralding the arrival of climate change Hurricane Sally, a slow-moving system pregnant with rain, finally made landfall on Wednesday, battering America’s Gulf Coast with floods and…
September 15, 2020 Arctic, Climate change Arctic cargo may fall short of Kremlin goal, reports say In a surprising retreat, Russia’s main Arctic infrastructure developer has urged the Kremlin to scale back sweeping goals for the…
September 10, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia The second reactor at Russia’s Leningrad II nuclear plan reaches controlled minimum power Reactor No 2 at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II has achieved criticality and was brough to the minimum controlled…
September 9, 2020 Climate change Fires in Russian Arctic release record quantities of carbon dioxide, studies say Unprecedented fires battering the Arctic have released more carbon dioxide this year than forest blazes over the entirety of 2019,…
September 7, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Baltic states form energy pact against Belarusian nuclear plant The Baltic states have issued a joint boycott of energy produced by the Belarusian nuclear power plant and will require…
September 4, 2020 Air Pollution, Climate change Will it be hard or easy to reverse Trump’s anti-environmental legacy if he loses in November? Both Donald Trump’s administration has undertaken a series of aggressive rollbacks to US environmental protection policy that has broad repercussions not…
August 31, 2020 Climate change Climate change made Hurricane Laura intensify quickly, studies say As experts from the National Hurricane Center surveyed the Gulf of Mexico early last week, they saw in Laura the…
August 24, 2020 Fossil fuels, Oil Major Norwegian oil production vessel hit by construction errors, Bellona warns Troubling construction errors have beset an Equinor-operated vessel bound for Norwegian oil fields, making it vulnerable to fatigue and accidents…
August 21, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Delays in delivering Russia’s giant nuclear icebreaker line sparks lawsuits Delays plaguing the launch of the Arktika nuclear icebreaker, billed to be Russia’s largest to date, have prompted a number…
August 19, 2020 Electric mobility, Transport What will it take to get electric cars on Russian roads, digital conference asks High sticker prices, bad roads and a lack of a charging infrastructure are conspiring against electric cars in Russia in…
August 17, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Belarus begins fueling its Russian-built nuclear power plant Belarus has begun loading uranium fuel into the first of two reactors at its controversial Russian-built nuclear power plant, which…
August 14, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian officials set eight-year time table for lifting sunken nuclear subs Officials from Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, have reiterated plans to raise two sunken nuclear submarines from the Arctic in…
August 12, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Dismantlement of Russia’s most radioactive ship reaches milestone The Lepse nuclear service ship, long one of the most dangerous Soviet era radiation hazards in Northwest Russia, has finally…
August 11, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Damaged spent nuclear fuel to depart Andreyeva Bay next year, say officials A milestone process to remove damaged spent nuclear fuel at a former Arctic submarine base will commence next year, officials…
August 6, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia The adventures of depleted uranium hexafluoride in Russia The renewed import of nuclear materials from Europe to Russia has raised important questions for environmentalists: Is the substance radioactive…
July 15, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom, Norway and Bellona discuss nuclear cleanup work in Northwest Russia Nuclear officials from Russia and Norway have met online to discuss raising sunken nuclear submarines from Arctic waters, the bulk…
July 2, 2020 Fisheries, Renewable energy Bellona allies with ABB and Bremnes Seashore in world’s first fully electric fish farm Aquaculture in Norway is a billion-dollar business. Chances are that if you’ve eaten salmon anytime in the last six months,…
June 29, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia denies it’s behind minor European radiation spike Russia over the weekend denied that its nuclear power plants were the source of a minor radiation spike detected by…
June 25, 2020 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Environmental activists are under severe pressure, new report concludes Russia’s law on ‘foreign agents’ has put an undue burden on the country’s environmentalists, hampering the addressing myriad ecological problems,…
