June 6, 2014 Access to information, Arctic Putin playing hot potato with Duma bill that would abolish state environmental impact assessments A proposed bill on the floor of the Russian Duma that would do away with the obligatory legal process known as a State Environmental […]
June 3, 2014 Climate change US EPA to seek 30 percent CO2 cut in power plant emissions within next 16 years Taking a historic step to fight climate change, the Obama administration proposed a plan Monday that aims to slash carbon dioxide emissions […]
June 2, 2014 Industrial Pollution UPDATE: Kola Peninsula nickel production facilities issues itself license to continue to pollute, continuing month of grave air code violations A plan by the controversial Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine (KMMC) near the Norwegian border that will allow it to keep polluting at […]
May 22, 2014 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Fukushima starts dumps of water into sea amid scandal and technical breakdowns Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has started diverting treated groundwater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the […]
May 9, 2014 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia trumpets victory in new ‘super modern’ nuclear icebreaker project St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has won an uncontested tender to build the first three of Russia’s new generation of “super modern” […]
May 8, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Environmental activists gain visit with imprisoned Olympic protester Vitishko After an initial rebuff from prison colony officials on Tuesday, a group of environmentalists and prisoners’ rights activists were […]
May 7, 2014 Climate change New government report shows US climate already changing as Obama appeals directly to the people In a major overture of environmental engagement, the Obama White House last evening rolled out trenchant scientific findings that climate […]
May 5, 2014 Arctic, Oil Activists in Rotterdam arrested and released for trying to block Russian Arctic oil tanker from docking An environmental effort to head of a ship laden with the first commercial oil drilled by Russia in the Arctic from docking in Rotterdam was […]
April 30, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia’s prosecutor slaps ‘foreign agent’ label on 24 NGOs in his 2013 year-end tally Russia’s prosecutor general, Yury Chaika, announced earlier this week in a report that 24 non-governmental organizations had been tarred […]
April 29, 2014 Arctic, Oil Environmentalists go for second round with Gazprom, vowing to intercept Arctic oil tank bound for Europe Oil drawn last week from Russia’s first offshore Arctic oil drilling platform looks to be headed for environmental clashes as it reaches […]
April 28, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Sochi Olympic protestor Gazaryan wins environmental ‘Nobel,’ but ambivalent about its impact Suren Gazaryan, a Russian zoologist turned crusading activist whose dogged investigations cast a glaring spotlight on the massive corruption […]
April 26, 2014 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues INTERVIEW: Scientist, environmentalist Vladimir Levchenko remembers his days in Chernobyl On the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe Bellona’s Liya Vandysheva spoke with physicist, D.Sc. in Biol. […]
April 23, 2014 Arctic, Oil Russia opens oil sluices in Arctic as rickety Prirazlomnaya platform begins production Russia’s controversial Prirazlomnaya oil platform, the world’s first effort at commercial drilling offshore in the Arctic, on Friday […]
April 2, 2014 Nuclear issues Paper: Construction cost overruns of Olkiluoto reactor rival skyscrapers, Pyramids and Taj Mahal – Areva objects Woes continue to mount around the construction of Finland’s Olkiluoto 3, the new generation European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), as new […]
April 2, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan First trickle of Fukushima evacuees allowed back home amid persistently high radiation levels For the first time since Japan’s nuclear disaster three years ago, authorities are lifting restrictions for residents to return home […]
April 1, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences New climate change report sounds major impact alarm – will anyone listen this time? The world is not ready for the impacts of climate change, which will include more extreme weather and the possibility that parts of the […]
March 31, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan First worker death at Fukushima highlights mushrooming reports of shady subcontractor activities Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant claimed it’s first recorded worker death on Friday when a subcontractor was […]
March 28, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Kremlin goes on record as reversing nuclear fuel embargo against Ukraine The Kremlin finally backed up statements made last week by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom that Ukraine will continue to receive […]
March 21, 2014 Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Bellona electric car trek symbolizes what can go right with Murmansk environment MURMANSK – The first known trip via an electric car from Norway to Russia wrapped up today as its driver, Bellona President Frederic […]
March 20, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia In major step forward, decrepit Lepse nuclear service ship hits dry dock in May MURMANSK – Two years after the derelict nuclear service ship Lepse was hauled out of Murmansk harbor – only to endure further traffic […]
