From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters—Vincent Mundy, The Guardian "Every crater carries a different story, depending on the soil, location, power of the explosion, intensity of the battle and whether clean water is present" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

«Суспільне Культура» опублікувало нашу статтю українською до 40-річчя Чорнобильської ядерної катастрофи. Ми досліджуємо поліські "природокультури" у творчості Марії Примаченко до та після Чорнобиля. suspilne.media/culture/1297...

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. Earlier this month, @ukrinstitute.bsky.social and the Royal Society of Arts co-hosted a major discussion on its legacy for European security. #Chornobyl40 #Ukraine #EuropeanSecurity 1/3

A boy climbs a tree to get a better view of bats being released into Leontovych Central Park in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Incredible work by the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre. Wonderful to see so much public curiosity for our nocturnal urban neighbours. #NightlifeInTheMoreThanHumanCity

UKRAINIAN CARTOGRAPHIES 🌍 🌐 🇺🇦 How & why has Ukraine been mapped in the past & present, & what is (counter-)cartography’s role in shaping Ukraine’s future? Workshop: in person & online! 🗓️: 8 May 2026, 9-5 📍: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford Registration: tinyurl.com/OxUkrHub

Last week, I was honoured to discuss Chornobyl's environmental and political legacies with fantastic colleagues as we approach the 40th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe A recording is available, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and Sasha Dovzhyk www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrz...

Many thanks to everyone who attended last night’s event, '40 Years On: Chornobyl’s Legacy and European Environmental Security', co-organised by the @Ukr_Institute and @theRSAorg. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 1/2

And if you’re looking for a weekend read, look no further. Our new issue of the London Ukrainian Review, dedicated to the Chornobyl anniversary, is now live: www.londonukrainianreview.org

Another form of "war-wilding"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

«Болота проти танків. Як водно-болотні угіддя допомагають під час війни» Олега Листопада 'Swamps vs tanks: How wetlands help during wartime' by Oleh Listopad uwecworkgroup.info/uk/%d0%b1%d0...

"The fact that hedgehogs are a part of the culture of Ukraine is a wonderful thing... they punch well above their weight & are stronger & better defended that you might expect" Part 2 of @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's report on hedgehog rescuers in Ukraine 🦔 🇺🇦 hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...

⚡️ Global oil prices rise as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sector escalate. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 14 that Ukraine's strikes on oil facilities amount to the "most effective sanctions," weakening Russia's ability to finance its war.

"Until that moment the only Ukrainian hedgehogs in my mind were the ones placed on roads to act as tank defences!" Read my friend, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's, new post on hedgehog rescue in #Ukraine, part 1 of 2. hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...

Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A thoughtful review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's 'Ecocide in Ukraine' by @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social published on the website of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...

Delighted to have a chapter in 'The Nuclear-Water Nexus' edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social & @siegfriedevens.bsky.social Kate Brown and I trace the legacies of #Chornobyl through the proposed E40 waterway, exploring historical/contemporary attempts to engineer the #Prypiat River

An exciting opportunity 👇 Please share widely!

The Oxford Ukraine Hub will host its first interdisciplinary Ukraine Summer School on 22-26 September 2025. We invite applications from postgraduate students with an interest in contemporary Ukraine. Deadline: 30 June 2025 More info on how to apply: oxfordukrainehub.web.ox.ac.uk/ukraine-summ...

🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦 'Security and Warfare in #Ukraine: Domestic and Global Developments Post-2022' 🗓️ Friday 6th June at St Antony's College, Oxford. 🕰️ Full info & schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b28... 📝 Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

📢 Call for Submissions – Postgraduate Research Symposium at Oxford Everyday Experiences of Conflict: The Daily Life, Legacies & Textures of War 📅 November 6, 2025 📌 Location: University of Oxford ⏰ Deadline: May 30, 2025 Find out more: www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/event/everyd...

🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦 'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in postwar #reconstruction of #Ukraine' 🗓️ Friday 14th March at St Antony's College, Oxford. 🕰️ Full schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dd1... 📝 Registration: forms.office.com/e/YvyXhRce1t

This forthcoming book looks very important for understanding the US-Ukraine mineral deal in its broader political economic context and in relation to histories of colonial resource extraction

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

My new paper in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies asks what it means to treat the #Chornobyl Zone as a laboratory, exploring a strange experiment conducted with the Chornobyl dogs. Thanks @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social and @tlrichardson.bsky.social for support! drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...

Article in Translation Anna Olenenko. “‘Our New Sea Is Our New Grief’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle to Construct the Landscape of the Lower Dnipro.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024. drive.google.com/file/d/1ap8o...

Jonathon Turnbull. “Chornobyl as Laboratory? The Curious Case of CTVT.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...

Iryna Skubii. “Toward an Animal-Sensitive History of Famines: Animals, the Environment, and Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1l6kw...

Julia Malitska. “Polycentring Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Human-Animal Relationships in the Pages of Vegetarianskoe obozrěnie, 1909–15.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yr-xAPbPiZ9PFvNKl0ZJD0Dow73V42m4/view?usp=sharing

Tanya Richardson & Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1PASJ...

Adrian Ivakhiv. “Becoming Tuteishyi: Ukraine in the New Global Climatic Regime.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/10rlC...

Iryna Zamuruieva. “Gathering Ecofeminist Stories with Kateryna Hrushevs'ka.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mlye...

Kateryna Iakovlenko. “A Systematic Robbery: Transforming the Memory, Culture, and Landscape of the Ukrainian Steppe.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1yy_9...

Anastassiya Andrianova. “Sunflowers in the Ruins: A Multimodal Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Ukrainian War Songs from March to May 2022.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1Bhxm...

Introduction. Tanya Richardson & Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1EQM6...

This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine. 🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb ⏰ 4pm 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social All welcome!

Finally got my hands (and eyes) on @solomiyamag.bsky.social published in collaboration with @ukrenvhum.bsky.social Absolutely brilliant! Order while you can - worth every penny.

'Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Victory: Ukraine’s Changing Environment' Looking forward to taking part in this event on #ecocide in #Ukraine at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Registration below 👇 huri.harvard.edu/tcup-confere... @ukrenvhum.bsky.social @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social

Tickets are now sold out to attend this event in person! We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Oxford in a couple of weeks. For those of you who would like to attend online/remotely, please register using the following form: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Delighted to have an essay in here with Oksana Semenik on nature in the work of Maria Prymachenko in the #Chornobyl region. Get your copy now 👇

🔱 Solomiya: The Environmental Issue is now available for pre-order in #Ukraine and the rest of the world 🔵 We're so excited to share this issue with you which features photography, art, and writing on key #environmental issues in Ukraine Order here: solomiyamag.com/issue/4

Don't miss this event in Oxford in a couple of weeks 👇 Ukrainian Environmentalists by the Oxford Ukraine Hub.

Check out the schedule for our seminar on Ukrainian Environmentalisms below 👇 Friday 31st January at Reuben College, Oxford. Registration is now open, and there are some tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukrainian-... @marniehowlett.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social

🌍 Registration for «Ukrainian Environmentalisms» is now live! 🌍 The inaugural seminar of the Oxford Ukraine Hub brings together four distinguished speakers to reflect on the most pressing issues related to the #environment and #ecology in #Ukraine www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukrainian-...

Absolutely thrilling news! Looking forward to it as I'm working on my book on #ecomedia in the Central and Eastern European perspective.

🔱 Coming soon: Solomiya - the #Environmental Issue 🔱 🇺🇦 We're super excited to be collaborating with Solomiya Magazine to showcase different perspectives on Ukrainian ecologies from artists and scientists in light of Russia’s war More info: solomiyamag.com/issue/4

🇺🇦 Very excited to launch the «Oxford Ukraine Hub» w/ fantastic colleagues from across Oxford, funded by the Social Sciences Division! 🌍 The Hub will integrate the study of #Ukraine into university curricula across disciplinary divides. www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/new-... @marniehowlett.bsky.social

🔱 Coming soon: Solomiya - the #Environmental Issue 🔱 🇺🇦 We're super excited to be collaborating with Solomiya Magazine to showcase different perspectives on Ukrainian ecologies from artists and scientists in light of Russia’s war More info: solomiyamag.com/issue/4