What role did environmental issues play during this year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference? Ievgeniia Kopytsia and I provide answers in this @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social article: uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac... We summarise debates, identify contradictions, and make some suggestions on strategies

✍️ #Ukraine plans to sign high seas treaty that #Russia refuses to join Russia's unwillingness to sign the #HighSeasTreaty may well be related to its interest in resource extraction in the #Arctic. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

My review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's book "Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War" is out, open access, here: gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/... A truly outstanding book on environmental impacts, how people and non-humans cope, sad, beautifully written, very accessible!

Il y a 57 ans, les tanks soviétiques roulaient sur les pavés de #Prague. C'était le début de l'occupation de la Tchécoslovaquie sous prétexte d'"aide fraternelle". Un vocable qui n'a pas disparu chez certains. Mais l'histoire est là pour nous avertir. N'oublions pas. ✌️🇨🇿

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I’m honoured to announce the release of the volume "Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity", a multi-author study that examines the politically driven hostility towards Ukraine deeply rooted in Russian geopolitical chauvinism: buff.ly/obr8I30

If you haven't gotten yours yet, now get a a copy of @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social 's brilliant book on dispersed dispossession in rural Russia. www.ugapress.org/978082036388... #geosky

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...

Dieses Konzert sollte ganz #Europa alarmieren: Marko Perković aka Thompson, tritt heute in #Zagreb vor bis zu 500.000 Menschen auf. Er steht für eine gefährliche Mischung aus Rechtsextremismus, Nationalismus und der Verherrlichung des Ustaša-Regimes. 1/6 orf.at/stories/3398...

Es ist wie Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor @blaetter.bsky.social beschreiben: „Aufstieg des Endzeitfaschismus”. Ideologische Grundierung beginnt jedoch nicht im Trumpismus oder im Umfeld der AfD, sondern in bürgerlicher Mitte, die Privilegien erhalten & die Wirtschaft über das Leben der Vielen stellt.

Is rearmament costing the Earth? Our OpEd in this summer's European Energy Innovation magazine explores how spiralling military spending places EU and global climate goals at risk. www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu/OnlinePublic... #COP30

Die CH verfügt über tech. Mittel und Investitionskraft, um die #Energiewende schnell umzusetzen. Was fehlt, sind Rahmenbedingungen, die ökol. und sozioökonomische Faktoren gleichermassen berücksichtigen. Gastbeitrag S. 8: issuu.com/smart_media/... @retoknutti.bsky.social @PetraSieber #SPEED2ZERO

1/ 🙏 PLEASE support our work! uwecworkgroup.info/donate/ Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group has been highlighting the far-reaching environmental consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine since 2022.

In a time of ecocide in Ukraine, please read @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social 's outstanding book, and support @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social 's important work!

In: Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social and Taras Kuzio, eds., Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2025. @ffrafaction.bsky.social @komrex-unijena.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russlandwatcher.de @deskrussia.bsky.social

1/ 🛰️ How can we record the environmental and economic consequences of #war from #space? 🔗 Read about how #satellite data aid assessment of the extent of damage and chances for recovery of #Ukraine in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/satellite-da...

Curious what happened to forest certification in Russia, country with largest forest area, when FSC left after full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Our research on this, and what it says about institutional/governance adaptation to global decoupling, is published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kate Marvel, Climate Scientist at NASA and formerly, Project Drawdown, has written an extraordinary and beautiful book on emotions surrounding climate change called, "Human Nature." Check out her recent interview with the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

"UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalise" Damn right And fossil fuel CEOs should be first in the dock Climate lies cost lives www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Adam Calo, Sylvia Kay, Sarah R Sippel, Coline Perrin, and Kirsteen Shields explore how geographically variegated property regimes in the Global North shape the scope of the commodification and assetization of farmland, and discuss radical alternatives to private property. tinyurl.com/2atadp9n

If you are interested in land politics, check out @econgeo.bsky.social 's Institutional Landscapes webpage. They are graciously hosting this guest post:

Brazil is set to auction 172 oil and gas blocks today... 68 of them are in the Amazon. It’s happening just as the country prepares to host #COP30, raising concerns over the expansion of fossil fuels in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems.

Apparently, the deterrent effect of US investment in Ukraine is limited. www.ft.com/content/c320...

Angesichts der Verbindungen des mutmaßlichen Attentäters in die Welt der sog. independent charismatic Christianity und New Apostolic Reformation, hier (frei für alle) meine Podcast-Doppelfolge mit @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social aus dem letzten Jahr, über ihren Einfluss und Radikalisierungspotential:

Last self-publicizing post on the book, I promise. I did a relatively accessible longer write up for Russia.Post in May. I've reblogged it today in case people missed it there and want the definitive: "this is what it covers". postsocialism.org/2025/06/12/t...

Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July ugapress.org/book/9780820...

1/ 😡 The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has allocated ≈€5M to create a map-scheme of agricultural lands in the siezed regions of #Donetsk, #Luhansk, #Zaporizhzhia and #Kherson How the #war is destroying #Ukraine's agricultural landscapes? Read here: uwecworkgroup.info/seeds-of-met...

Deutliche Mehrheit für Zurückweisungen - na und? In meinem 2. Semester war eine knappe Mehrheit der Jura-Studierenden für die Androhung von Folter in bestimmten Fällen. Meine Professorin sagte zurecht, gut, dass wir Rechtsnormen haben, die uns davor schützen. www.n-tv.de/politik/Deut...

Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

The ocean takes up a quarter of our CO2-emissions. If that share declines as marine ecosystems become increasingly stressed by ocean heating and pollution, we are in trouble. #WorldOceanDay globalcarbonbudget.org

Mein Artikel @taz.de über die Angriffe auf den EGMR ist jetzt auch in der Online-Version veröffentlicht worden. Neun Nationalstaaten wollen die Auslegung der Menschenrechtskonvention beeinflussen - und sägen damit an der Rechtsstaatlichkeit. taz.de/EU-Rechtspre...

Russia’s pro-war commentators on Telegram were universally unhappy about Ukraine’s ‘Spiderweb’ operation but divided over what it means, who’s to blame, and whether it was “Russia’s Pearl Harbor.” Here’s what they had to say. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

1/ 👀 The environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine are most often discussed in the context of military operations. But environmental problems on the home front are no less significant.

No matter how you look at it, the rapid rises in global military spending threaten climate action, undermining our collective security. It's everything from direct emissions to diverted climate finance, and its threatening the attainment of #SDG13 on #ClimateAction. ceobs.org/soaring-glob...

Two must-reads in Ukrainian environmental humanities! www.slanted.de/product/solo... www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The collateral climate damage caused by NATO’s increased military spending could reach up to $264 billion per year. Read our latest for the Guardian on the risk of prioritising short term hard security over long term climate action. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A growing number of researchers are trying to calculate the size of the contribution that military and conflict emissions are making to the #ClimateCrisis. These calculations are made more difficult by the lack of military data to feed into them 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Those exploring the environmental consequences of conflicts throughout their lifecycle may well be interested in this event on 29 May.

3/ 💥 What will happen to those areas last in line for #demining? Learn more in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/caution-mine...

The history of the struggle and sacrifice of our grandparents is being distorted in the service of Kremlin's power. On this 8th of May, we should claim it back. Here is my article on how the memory of World War II is instrumentalized by Russia. www.valigiablu.it/kyiv-brussel...

The world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating, according to a new study www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is Russian society ready for a ceasefire? Yes, but the elite still think in terms of maximalist gains. postsocialism.org/2025/04/25/i...

1/ The Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group has published a two-part study devoted to the environmental consequences of the #Kakhovka catastrophe and potential future scenarios. Several members of UWEC Work Group took part in the project: Oleksiy Vasyliuk, Eugene Simonov and Valeria Kolodezhna.

📍 Are you preparing for #fieldwork in a conflict, post-war, or closed political setting? ⬇️ Get hands-on training on ethical & practical aspects, covering: ⚠️ Risk assessment & mitigation 🔎 Common #ResearchMethods 📈 Managing your #data 💻 12–16 May 👩‍💻 Vera Axyonova #ecprms #methodsky #polisky

(1/3) What is the role of #criticalrawmaterials for the energy transition and why are the EU and other global actors so keen on getting them from Central Asian countries such as #Kazakhstan? Is this an economic opportunity? Or can we observe a new, "green" type of #extractivism?

Statement on Solidarity with Serbian Students & Professors https://soziologie.de/aktuell/meldungen-des-vorstands/news/statement-on-the-support-of-serbian-students-professors

Warum tötet die israelische Armee gezielt Journalisten, Hochschullehrerinnen, Schriftsteller und Künstlerinnen in #Gaza? Riad Othman über eine perfide Kriegsstrategie:

1/ It may seem that the USA has provided almost no support to Ukraine's #environmental sector. But the consequences of #Trump's decision also may be delayed; the USA has been contributing to other international funding mechanisms of which #Ukraine has a membership.