1/🌾 #War destroys not only cities but also soils, fields, and ecosystems. Up to a third of Ukraine's arable land has been affected by military action: craters, mines, sulfur, and heavy metals make some areas unsafe for agriculture for decades to come. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/how-warfare-...

1/ 🧐 Scientists are concerned about the U.S. withdrawal from regional #environmental agreements, which may cease to exist altogether without U.S. participation 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/us-exit-from...

1/ 🛡️ Imagine clean air, safe rivers and fertile fields – then imagine them poisoned by war. #Environmental security in #Ukraine is now a front line: toxic spills, fires, damaged dams and mines threaten health, food and cross-border ecosystems. 🔗: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 👀 Is it possible to completely rebuild Ukrainian cities reduced to rubble by #Russia? History knows examples of post-war reconstruction, but the current scale of destruction in #Ukraine casts doubt on them. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/ukraines-rui...

1/ UWEC is back on @theguardian.com! theguardian.com/environment/... While the country’s eastern regions now under Russian occupation are primarily industrial areas, the southern expanse of #Crimea and #Kherson has historically been central to agriculture, botany and biodiversity. ⬇️

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1/ ‼️ January 20, 2026: The #Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has completely lost its external power supply as a result of large-scale military activity, according to the @iaeaorg.bsky.social

1/ 🫣 @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social and other media outlets have reported that one reason for Leonid Pshenychnov’s arrest may be Russia’s desire to seize hydrocarbon deposits in the #Antarctic and #Arctic 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

1/ ❄️ “Antarctica’s first political prisoner”: #Russia arrests researcher, accusing him of treason and collaborating with #Ukraine Leonid #Pshenychnov is a Ukrainian scientist who has been researching #Antarctica for over 40 years. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🤬 In December 2025 the #Russian government, seeking new sources of revenue to fuel its #war machine, opened the Shores of Lake #Baikal for development and proposed to place “projects of socio-economic importance” inside all protected areas of #Russia 🔗: transrivers.org/2025/4096/

1/ 🟡🔵 The 2025 IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Conservation Congress was a real breakthrough for environmental organizations from #Ukraine. 🔗 Read more on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/ukraine-scor...

1/ 🟡🔵 #Ukraine demands compensation from #Russia at #COP30 climate summit This demand was announced on November 18 at the COP summit in Brazil by Ukrainian Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agricultural Policy Pavel Kartashov. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🏴‍☠️ Exactly one year ago, on December 15, 2024, two #tankers belonging to Russia's #shadowfleet broke apart during a storm and sank in the #Kerch Strait. They were carrying about 9,000 tons of #mazut oil destined for export to India. The consequences are here ↙️ uwecworkgroup.info/military-oil...

1/ 🙏 Support UWEC with your donation! uwecworkgroup.info/donate/ Against the backdrop of other important news, the #environmental consequences of the Russian #war seem to be taking a back seat. Yes, our era has seen a multitude of crises, but #Ukraine must remain a priority topic in the media.

1/ 🦓 #Russia is selling off rare animals living in Askania-Nova nature reserve in #Ukraine The Ukrainian #AskaniaNova administration is recording the damage and crimes committed by the occupiers, building a case for their future punishment. 🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/russia-selli...

1/ 🎥 Nature through the lens: Three films about the environmental impacts of the #war in #Ukraine were released in October, 2025 🔗 For more details about each film, please refer to the UWEC article: uwecworkgroup.info/nature-throu...

1/ 🟡🔵 Environmental and climate activism in #Ukraine during the #war 🔗 uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta... Try to imagine living under constant shelling while working without the "right" to burnout because #environmental and #climate change issues haven't gone away 😟

1/ Environmental and climate activism in #Georgia during Russia's invasion of #Ukraine 🔗 Read the article to learn how #environmental activists from Ecovillage Georgia are seeking solutions amid the political crisis: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/‼️ On November 4, 2025, the international coalition Rogun Alert (including @ceebankwatch.bsky.social, @re-course.org & more NGOs) published a report on the unfair resettlement of people due to the construction of the #Rogun hydropower plant in #Tajikistan 🔗 Read more: rogun.exposed/pdf/2025_Res...

1/ ❤️‍🩹 UWEC Work Group needs your support to continue covering the #environmental consequences of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine 🔗 Thank you in advance for your #donation: uwecworkgroup.info/donate/

1/ 📗 The organization Environment People Law has published a book entitled “Kamianska Sich National Park: War Against Nature”. 🔗 Read more about it in our regular review series on the #environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 🤔 Between #war and #nature conservation: Who wins when aggressor countries withdraw from #environmental agreements? 🔗 UWEC analyzes the consequences: uwecworkgroup.info/between-war-... 📷: #Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assumes Arctic Council Chairmanship in 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland

1/ 🎉 Imports of Russian #LNG to #European markets will cease from 2027, thanks to the EU's 19th package of sanctions against #Russia. 🔗 More details can be found in the review of the #environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 😎 Six of UWEC's stories are referencedin a new report by @greenpeace.org on #environmental prospects of #Russia after 2022. There are a dozen other articles with comments and interviews with UWEC experts: www.greenpeace.org/static/plane... ❗️ PLEASE DONATE! uwecworkgroup.info/donate/

🟡🔵 On September 9, 2025, @europarl.europa.eu approved the @ec.europa.eu's report on progress of #Ukraine towards #EU membership, but demanded that reforms in the field of #environmental protection be continued. 🔗 More details can be found here: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ ✍️ On August 18, 2025, the #Ukrainian government presented its Priority Action Plan for 2025-26. How #environmental issues are reflected in it? 🔗 Read the regular Review of the environmental consequences of the #war in #Ukraine for August-September 2025: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

1/ 💚 UWEC is launching a series of articles on eco-activism in #Belarus, #Ukraine, and #Georgia during the #war in Ukraine. 🔗 In the first review, we discuss #Belarusian environmental organizations and initiatives: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...

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...