1/ 🦗 In recent months, there has been much media coverage of the mass invasion of #locusts in southern #Ukraine. Some even refer to these locusts as "Egyptian", drawing parallels with the Old Testament. 🔗 What factors created favorable conditions for it? uwecworkgroup.info/invaders-fro...

1/ 💔 #Russia expressed its political “resentment” at a resolution of the parties to the #Ramsar Convention condemning the Russian invasion of #Ukraine in a highly counterproductive manner. 🔗 UWEC has analyzed in detail the consequences of such a move: uwecworkgroup.info/the-ramsar-s...

1/ 🤡 On Sep.19, the Krasnodar Region Operational Headquarters and a government commission reported on the completion of work to collect settled #mazut from the bottom of the #BlackSea in the Anapa coastal zone. UWEC expert Evgeny Simonov explained why the problem is far from being solved: ⬇️⬇️

1/ 💨 The Office of the President of #Ukraine considers #wind farms to be a key area for the development of #renewable energy—the domestic potential for wind energy production is estimated at 100-150 GW What are the prospects for “green generation” during the #war? uwecworkgroup.info/prospect-for...

1/ 🦺 #JustTransition for coal-mining communities: What is it and how does it work in wartime #Ukraine? 🔗 Read more in the UWEC article: uwecworkgroup.info/just-transit...

💧 #Donbas faced a critical #water shortage this summer. In #Donetsk itself, water — often cloudy and with dirty sediment — is supplied once every 3 days for 4 hours, and even less frequently in some settlements. 🔗 What are the causes of the water #crisis? novayagazeta.ru/articles/202...

1/ 〽️ Starting September 3, 2025, the new price cap for a barrel of Russian #oil is $47.60 instead of $60 🔗 Read about how #Europe is accelerating its energy “divorce” from #Russia on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/europe-haste... [📸 by @creacleanair.bsky.social]

1/ ↩️ Rolling back the #environmental agenda. What does the liquidation of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources mean for #Ukraine? We explore this in our latest article: uwecworkgroup.info/merging-mini...

1/ ❗️ The echo of Russian aggression in #Ukraine could be heard throughout the 15th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the #Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (July 23-31, 2025) 📷: wetlands of international importance in Ukraine uwecworkgroup.info/ramsar-wetla...

1/ 🟡🔵❤️‍🩹 Building back better? Fifty shades of green at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 As #Ukraine battles Russian aggression, the #URC2025 highlighted the country’s ongoing efforts in reconstruction, green transition, and #EU integration: uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac...

🐾 Fighting for life: How Russia’s #war threatens to wipe out rare species For the first time, the IUCN European Red List has officially recognized military action in #Ukraine as an extinction risk factor. How serious is the threat to Ukraine’s rare species? uwecworkgroup.info/fighting-for...

1/ 🤬 Occupation as "conservation": #Russia has "created" nature reserve in the #Donbas The creation of a "new" reserve on Ukrainian territory, "Donetsk Steppe" has nothing to do with concern for the environment: it's about marking the territory politically: uwecworkgroup.info/occupation-d...

💨 Russian missile attacks contribute to CO2 emissions and accelerate #climatechange More than 8k impacts on the environment have been recorded during the full-scale #Russian invasion, with the cost of the damages running at an estimated $94B 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

✍️ #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...

🛰️ Images taken in July show ongoing pollution of the #Kerch Strait with #mazut. It's likely to have come from tankers that sank in December 2024, according to kedr.media UWEC has already reported on the scale of the #disaster and its consequences: uwecworkgroup.info/military-oil...

🙄 Fiber optic #drones are a new source of #war pollution @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social experts have begun work on a separate article dedicated to #pollution resulting from the use of FPV drones near the front line in #Ukraine. 🔗 Read more here: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🤦‍♂️ On July 1, #Russia “created” the occupiers analog of the #Ukrainian nature conservation institution that managed the reserve for over a century The first event in the biography of the newly formed “administration” was… the steppe destroyed by fire: uwecworkgroup.info/biosphere-re...

🟡🔵 On June 30, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of #Ukraine presented the first draft of a bill “On the Fundamentals of Green Recovery in Ukraine” We hope the July merger of the Ministry with other departments won't affect the bill's further development.

1/ 😎 @theguardian.com mentioned @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social in an article about the natural overgrowth of the bottom at the site of the #Kakhovka Reservoir www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/ 🔥 On July 16, 2025, a fire broke out in the #Yalta Mountain Forest Nature Reserve covering an area of 1.1 hectares In August 2024, there was an earlier fire: rescuers miraculously managed to stop the flames a 100 meters from a 1,300-year-old strawberry madrone tree

1/ ‼️ #Russia exits Ramsar Convention on Wetlands The renunciation happened a day before the XV Conference of Parties started in #Zimbabwe on July 23, 2025. 🔗 How exactly will leaving the #Ramsar Convention harm the world's most extensive wetlands? uwecworkgroup.info/russia-exits...

#India, one of the largest importers of Russian oil, will refuse purchases in the event of added US #sanctions, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri, @reuters.com reported. 🔗 How does #Europe accelerate its "energy divorce" with #Russia? uwecworkgroup.info/europe-haste...

1/ 🔗 Inha Pavlii examines the impact of the war on Ukraine’s #coal industry and the potential consequences of failing to address the hazards of flooded #mines uwecworkgroup.info/black-legacy...

☀️🔥 Summer #heat has arrived across #Europe, and with it, the forest fire season. In #Ukraine, the risk is increasing not only because of heat, but also due to the #war. Read more about the situation with forest #fires in the early years of the invasion: uwecworkgroup.info/flames-of-wa...

1/ 📖 Ukrainian researcher Darya Tsymbalyuk has published a book entitled "Ecocide in #Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's #War" The full review can be read on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...

1/ 🤨 #Trump hasn't imposed new #sanctions against #Russia and has even partially eased the old ones, @nytimes.com writes. Meanwhile, in an interview with @lemonde.fr, French Foreign Minister @jnbarrot.bsky.social announced “the toughest European sanctions in the last 3 years.”

#Ukraine has appealed to many international bodies to establish control over the cleanup of the #mazut spill in the #Kerch Strait but no significant assistance has been forthcoming. Meanwhile, #Russia regularly receives international cleanup assistance: uwecworkgroup.info/internationa...

📩 Friendly reminder: in addition to reading on our website, you can subscribe to the UWEC email newsletter in PDF format. The latest issue, number 28, has just been published on our website. 🔗 Follow the link and subscribe to the newsletter: uwecworkgroup.info/issue-28/

1/ 🔥 The poster on #Dnipro River ecosystem revival at the former bottom of the #Kakhovka Reservoir has drawn a lot of attention from participants of the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Brisbane (June 16-19, 2025), which was attended by 1900 conservationists from 90 countries

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...

1/ 🪺 Not far from the front line, #birds have begun to build nests using leftover fiber optic cables from drones in #Ukraine 🔗 Read on to learn about other ways that #war affects bird behavior in the UWEC article: uwecworkgroup.info/has-the-war-...

⬛️ On June 9, 2025, ~500 #Ukrainian settlements were left without power. In wartime conditions, such blackouts can be prevented by decentralizing the energy sector and switching to #renewable #energy sources. It would be faster, easier, and cheaper! ↙️ uwecworkgroup.info/prospect-for...

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...

💥 Two years after the Kakhovka Hydropower Plant’s destruction We've been publishing timely information related to the #Kakhovka #disaster since day one. We've reached a clear position on a desirable future and the former #reservoir’s role in that future: uwecworkgroup.info/two-years-af...

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.

1/ #Europe hastens its ‘energy divorce’ from #Russia In early May, the European Commission published an updated roadmap for the #REPowerEU program, one of whose goals is to phase out imports of Russian energy resources by 2027.

1/ 😡 The Environmental Crisis Group reports that in April, a #Telegram account under the name Taras Matvienko offered a grant to a Russian environmental #activist on behalf of the “Ukrainian branch of #USAID”.

1/ 🫤 The United States will officially lay off employees of the USAID in #Ukraine as of July 1. We are talking about employees of humanitarian programs. Some of them were hired after Donald Trump's victory in the last US presidential election.

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.

1/ 👈 #Mazut from #Kerch moves westward: UNN reports that in #Odessa region a new mazut release was found in the Tuzlovskie Limany National Nature Park.

1/ 🤬 Korrespondent_net uses UWEC journalist Viktoriia Hubareva’s name to spread fake news rubryka.com/en/2025/05/1...

1/ 💧 The occupied republic's Committee for Water Management and Land Reclamation reports that reservoirs in #Crimea have accumulated 174 million cubic meters of #water

1/ ⛪️🔥According to the Religion on Fire project, at least 642 religious buildings have been destroyed or damaged during Russia's aggression in #Ukraine. @unesco.org tallied fewer affect cultural sites — 238.

1/ 💣 In April 2025, Ukrainian sappers cleared 5,850 hectares of land, having discovered 6,935 #explosive devices Since the start of the full-scale #invasion the total amount of destroyed munitions numbers 438,862.

1/ 🪶 On April 24, one ostrich was killed and one injured in an air strike on a farm near Novopavlovka (in #Dnipropetrovsk Region)

1/ 😳 Russian authorities will send more than 13 thousand children on vacation to the area of the #mazut spill in the Black Sea, agents.media reports

1/ 🌱 Recent research by the International Center for Ukrainian Victory shows that around 19.3% of all arable land in #Ukraine — about 5 million hectares — is currently unused due to military action, #occupation, or landmines

1/ 🔎 The Ukrainian environmental organization Environment People Law has conducted an analysis of the work done by commissions analyzing the consequences of military action on nature reserves.

1/ 🟡🔵 WWF Ukraine has teamed up with The HALO Trust to launch a project aimed at restoring protective treelines in the #Mykolaiv region

1/ 💚 #Greenpeace activists entered the Baltic Sea in order to speak out against Russia's shadow fleet