Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, August 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Publish date: October 19, 1998
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Each year the Science and Human Rights Program hosts a reception at the AAAS Annual Meeting. The reception honours one or more scientists who have been victims of human rights violations.
In the last five years the Program has honoured scientists from six countries. Among them was Vil Mirzoyanov, a Russian chemist imprisoned after revealing illegal chemical weapons experimentation in Russia. He was placed in custody and charged with divulging of state secrets in 1993, but released after U.S. scientists initiated a major campaign on his behalf.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies