FoodBIOPack Dmytro Bidiuk, a scientist from Sumy, created edible packages. They already decay in a month and taste like ordinary noodles. Packages can be used as ordinary ones and also specifically for food. The project is the winner of...
Nuclear explosions in Ukraine In total, the USSR conducted 239 peaceful nuclear explosions on its territory during in 1965–1988 under the auspices of the so-called Program 6 (“Employment of Nuclear Explosive Technologies in the...
Chemical plants and steel mills are just some of the more than four thousand ticking ecological time bombs in the eastern Ukraine conflict zone. Since the beginning of Russian aggression, over half a thousand explosions, leaks, and other...
Striltsivskyi Steppe is a nature reserve in the north of Luhansk Oblast, one of four divisions of Luhansk Nature Reserve. It is the only one of four untouched by war. Two other parts of Luhansk Reserve, Prydintsivska Zaplava and...
In 2017, raion center Zhovkva became the first gas-free city in Ukraine. The European Union funded the project which allowed to fully eliminate gas heating and use wood waste instead. Zhovkva, a town with 13,500 inhabitants in Lviv...
Just as was the case with the Chornobyl accident 25 years ago last month, the environmental damage caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading far beyond the borders of that country into the Russian Federation, according to...
The first biogas plant in Eastern Ukraine is set to open this year in Volnovakha, a government-controlled half-way town between Mariupol and occupied Donetsk. Its construction started in late 2013 as the European Bank for Reconstruction...
During 8-10 March 2017, Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was once again enveloped in smog. A thick fog blanketing the city mixed with air pollution particles to create a toxic substance which made breathing a challenge and dropped the...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
