June 9, 2020 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Oil As Arctic oil spill spreads, Bellona offers assistance An oil spill near Norilsk above the Russian Arctic Circle has crept into a glacial lake after seeping through barriers meant to staunch its […]
June 8, 2020 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian prosecutor orders checks on permafrost-bound industry in wake of Arctic oil spill Russian prosecutors have ordered checks on infrastructure built on permafrost after a fuel tank collapsed in the Arctic, leading to a […]
June 4, 2020 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Oil Putin declares emergency over Arctic oil spill – is climate change to blame? A major oil spill in northern Siberia has prompted Vladimir Putin to declare a state of emergency in an environmentally fragile Arctic […]
June 3, 2020 Nuclear issues Bellona wants answers about data fabrication scandal at Norwegian research reactor A Canadian nuclear company was among those that received doctored test results from Norway’s Halden reactor, the now-closed atomic […]
May 28, 2020 Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian economist calls Moscow’s oil dependency a ‘dead horse’ Russia must move away from oil and reduce its dependence on hydrocarbon prices as it shakes off the coronavirus, said Anatoly Chubais, a […]
May 26, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom announces 100 coronavirus cases at Belarus nuclear plant About 100 people at the construction site of a controversial nuclear power plant in Belarus have become infected with the coronavirus, the […]
May 25, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia commissions its floating nuclear plant Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, has been fully commissioned at a port in Siberia’s Far […]
May 21, 2020 Air Pollution, Climate change Carbon dioxide emissions take a dive during coronavirus lockdowns Daily carbon dioxide emissions have plummeted during Covid-19 lockdowns, backing earlier predictions that the pandemic could lead to the […]
May 19, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom eases employee coronavirus restrictions Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced a step-down of the company’s precautions against […]
May 18, 2020 Climate change Poll finds Russia wants environmentally sustainable solutions to Covid-19 downturn A recent poll has revealed that 60 percent of Russians would like to see their government strengthen its response to global climate change […]
May 15, 2020 Air Pollution, Climate change Amid coronavirus lockdowns, renewables eclipse coal in US power production Lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic have sent air pollution plunging, reduced traffic in cities and seems to have brought the United […]
May 15, 2020 Nuclear issues Faked-data scandal might jeopardize safety at unknown number of nuclear power plants An investigation at Norway’s now-closed Halden research reactor reveals that results from a number of nuclear fuel experiments were […]
May 12, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia plans to raise radioactive wrecks in the Arctic By 2030, the Russian government will raise seven pieces of radioactive debris – including two nuclear submarines – from the bottom of […]
May 7, 2020 Arctic, Climate change Arctic likely to be ice-free by 2050 despite climate efforts, new study says The Arctic will likely lose its summertime ice cover by 2050 even if levels of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere are significantly […]
May 5, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom fears for its nuclear cities amid coronavirus pandemic The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation has expressed concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus to three of its so-called […]
May 1, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian officials remotely ink contract to build biggest nuclear icebreaker ever Murmansk’s nuclear icebreaker port Atomflot has inked a deal with a Vladivostok shipyard to construct the Leader, a vessel of massive […]
April 29, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s most radioactive ship reaches dismantlement milestone The Lepse service ship, once the most glaring nuclear hazard in the Murmansk harbor, will now be emptied of nearly all of its radioactive […]
April 28, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Chernobyl fires rekindle solemn memories on disaster’s anniversary More than 1,000 firefighters are working to contain blazes around the site of the Chernobyl power plant, which 34-years ago this week became […]
April 24, 2020 Fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico oil spill Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon, new spills seem imminent Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, sending some 750 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly […]
April 17, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia’s new Arktika nuclear icebreaker delayed for at least a year A defective electric engine aboard Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker has set off a cascade of difficulties that will postpone its […]
