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Ecology
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Ukraine recorded over 265 Russian environmental crimes, including 14 cases of ecocide
Each day of Russia's war inflicts an estimated $127 million in environmental damages on Ukraine
Russia’s destruction of Kakhovka dam: five blows to economy, environment of world and Ukraine
Russia’s destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka hydropower plant has been called the largest technogenic catastrophe since…
The Battle for Askania-Nova: how Russia’s war threatens Europe’s ecological paradise
Before Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve, established by German Friedrich Falz-Fein in…
Whole world must unite against fossil fuels, dictators & wars – Ukrainian NGO
“Climate change is as much a threat as nuclear weapons” – this is a statement from more than…
8 of Europe’s 10 dirtiest coal power plants are in Ukraine
Global trends Ukraine is often neglected in global energy reports; compared to dragons such as China, the country…
Europe’s Amazonia will be lost if Poland, Ukraine and Belarus implement E40 waterway
[editorial]What’s wrong with the plans of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus to create a 2352-kilometer-long waterway linking the Baltic…
Activists continue fight to save unique Ukrainian mountain ridge from green energy project
[editorial]Ukrainian ecological activists have been fighting for four years to protect the unique Borzhava ridge, one of the…
Ukrainian startup starts selling paper made from fallen leaves
During his school years, inventor Valentyn Frechka was a member of Ukraine’s Minor Academy of Sciences — a…
Plogging, the art of picking up litter while jogging, spreads in Ukraine
The history of plogging A new tendency which combines taking care of the environment and keeping fit is…
Largest flood in 50 years devastates western Ukraine (photos, videos). Why again?
Read also: Dust storms, dry rivers, and desertification in Ukraine offer harsh lessons against intensive farming Almost constant…
The village creating Ukraine’s eco-friendly iconic brooms
Technology and history of manufacturing Brooms are mostly made of millet or sorghum stems. This crop grows well…
Dust storms, dry rivers, and desertification in Ukraine offer harsh lessons against intensive farming
[editorial]This April, Ukraine was devastated not only by coronavirus and war. Capital Kyiv for a few days became…
The stubborn Ukrainian tradition behind forest fires in Chornobyl
The spring and fall wildfires are not unusual in Ukraine after dry winters and hot summers, though this…
The Kremlin on global warming: Connecting the dots, disconnecting the facts
There is no shortage of “alternative versions” the Kremlin offers. Russian parliamentarians believe the US is attacking Russia…
Waffle coffee cups, wheat drinking straws and more – four hot eco-startups from Ukraine
Time doesn’t stand still, pollution and wasteful overconsumption are getting worse; hence, humanity constantly needs to find creative…
Edible packaging and paper from leaves: six green startups from Ukraine
FoodBIOPack Dmytro Bidiuk, a scientist from Sumy, created edible packages. They already decay in a month and taste…
Fears of radioactive disaster as Russian proxies plan to flood nuclear test site in Donbas
Nuclear explosions in Ukraine In total, the USSR conducted 239 peaceful nuclear explosions on its territory during in 1965–1988 under…
Donbas on the brink of environmental catastrophe
Chemical plants and steel mills are just some of the more than four thousand ticking ecological time bombs…
Donbas beyond the war. Preserving the steppe marmot
Striltsivskyi Steppe is a nature reserve in the north of Luhansk Oblast, one of four divisions of Luhansk…
First Ukrainian city stops using gas heating, switches to wood waste
In 2017, raion center Zhovkva became the first gas-free city in Ukraine. The European Union funded the project…