January 30, 2020 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Bellona’s Arctic Frontiers side-event takes aim at dirty maritime fuel As climate change warms the Arctic, it’s not just rising temperatures that are melting the ice. Another culprit is soot spewed by vessels […]
January 29, 2020 Arctic, Climate change Russia’s ranking officials take a miss on important Arctic conference The Arctic Frontiers conference convened in Tromsø, Norway this week, offering an important annual forum for politicians of Arctic […]
January 27, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian government bankrolls Leader nuclear icebreaker project The Russian government has allocated $2 billion to build a goliath high-tech nuclear icebreaker it claims will keep the Arctic ice free for […]
January 23, 2020 Climate change What it means when climate change finally spooks the world’s biggest asset manager Last week, Laurence Fink, the founder and chief executive of the massive BlackRock group, made an announcement that shook the financial […]
January 21, 2020 Arctic, Industrial Pollution The Shies camp: How Moscow’s trash became treasure for a group of environmental protestors Early this month, Irina Andrianova, one of Bellona’s writers, spent three days with a camp of environmental protesters who were blocking […]
January 17, 2020 Climate change Kremlin’s economic goals could make climate change worse, Russian government agency says In another stunning report from an agency in its own government, Russia’s audit chamber has warned the Kremlin that failure to address the […]
January 15, 2020 Arctic, Industrial Pollution, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Renewable energy, Russian human rights issues, Transport What Bellona Russia accomplished in 2019 To Bellona’s Russian office, 2019 was a year of waste – household waste, hazardous waste and radioactive waste. Nearly all of the […]
January 15, 2020 Electric mobility, Transport In a world rolling on electric wheels, how long can oil survive? Over the past year, the Bellona Foundation celebrated two anniversaries. Thirty years ago Bellona and close supporters registered the first […]
January 10, 2020 Electric mobility, Transport Tesla pledges to bring more electric car chargers to the far North Norway, a country known for its warm embrace of electric cars, has had a bit of a dark secret: Despite record-breaking sales of the […]
January 9, 2020 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Russia releases massive official plans for the Northern Sea Route The Russian government has published a massive new plan outlining its intentions for the Northern Sea Route, the icy shipping artery joining […]
January 7, 2020 Climate change Russia releases plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change and urges agencies to adapt Russia has published a plan to adapt its economy and population to climate change, hoping to mitigate damages while also seeking to “use […]
January 6, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia In change of plan, remote Arctic nuclear plant gets lifespan extension Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has prolonged the lifespan of a reactor it has long said it will shut down, pointing to a […]
January 2, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia One of Russia’s oldest nuclear reactors set to run until 2034 The second reactor unit at the Kola Nuclear Power plant near Murmansk has received the nod from Russian regulators to operate until 2034, […]
December 20, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s floating nuclear plant plugs in and produces power at remote port Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power station has begun supplying electricity to a remote port in Siberia, despite widespread […]
December 17, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Bellona works to shed light on Rosatom’s depleted uranium imports In recent weeks there has been a spike of interest surrounding the import into Russia of depleted uranium, a radioactive substance regarded […]
December 16, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia updates ‘foreign agent’ law target to individual journalists and, possibly, social media posters For the past eight years, non-profit groups in Russia have contended with a law branding them as “foreign agents” if they accept even […]
December 13, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia’s largest icebreaker starts sea trials The Arktika nuclear icebreaker – currently billed as the largest in the world – has begun sea trials near the Baltic Shipyard in St […]
December 11, 2019 Climate change A melting Arctic is driving up carbon dioxide emissions, new US government report says The Arctic is undergoing a profound and rapid shift into a new condition, one that is greener, features less ice, warmer temperatures and […]
December 10, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom to invest billions in polar shipping to compete with Suez Canal Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced it will invest some $7 billion in commercial container shipping as part of an […]
December 9, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Andreyeva Bay cleanup reaches landmark in dangerous nuclear fuel removal process Used nuclear fuel assemblies, which had been lying for decades at the bottom of Building 5, an aged and dilapidated fuel store at Russia’s […]
