The EU, nervous about disruption to gas supplies across an increasingly unstable Ukraine, is planning a European 'supergrid' linking all 28 member states to increase resilience, writes Paul Brown. The development will be a boon to renewable energy generation, and cut emissions from fossil fuels.
Supergrid will build EU resilience and boost renewables Paul Brown | 9th September 2014 News Energy EU Renewables power-lines-cut.jpg The EU, nervous about disruption to gas supplies across an …
The nuclear industry faces an uncertain future as the reactor building boom is struck by unexpected costs, serious technical problems, and long, expensive delays, writes Paul Brown. Meanwhile renewables like wind and solar are offering investors an enviable combination of falling cost, low risk, fast build times, predictable returns and minimal long term liabilities.
Time and money run out for nuclear revival Paul Brown | 17th January 2017 News Nuclear Energy Renewables Finance olkiluoto-cut.jpg The nuclear industry faces an uncertain future as the reactor …
With 300,000 hectares of forests, fields and steppes damaged by fire, the war in Ukraine has done huge damage to the country's environment, writes Dimiter Kenarov. But there has been an upside: a new green spirit is taking root, and young volunteers are stepping in to protect wild spaces.
Greening the revolution - Ukrainian youth joins fight for nature Dimiter Kenarov | 21st October 2014 News Ukraine Natural World Society War mrlp.jpg With 300,000 hectares of forests, fields and …
In 1976, it looked like a good idea: to divert the waters of the Danube into a salt-water lagoon on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, and irrigate millions of hectares of arid steppe land, writes Dimiter Kenarov. But the result has been human and environmental disaster on an epic scale.
A failed Soviet irrigation project brings eco-apocalypse to SE Ukraine Dimiter Kenarov | 29th December 2014 News Ukraine Water Farming Fishing Development abandoned-fishing-boat-cut.jpg In 1976, it …
As worldwide stocks of plutonium increase, lightly-armed British ships are about to carry an initial 330kg of the nuclear bomb metal for 'safekeeping' in the US, writes Paul Brown. But it's only the tip of a global 'plutonium mountain' of hundreds of tonnes nuclear power's most hazardous waste product.
Too much of a bad thing? World awash with waste plutonium Paul Brown | 24th January 2016 News Nuclear WMD US UK Japan Korea Transport Oceans pacific-egret-cut.jpg As worldwide stocks of plutonium …