Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Seeking solutions through information sharing about the environmental impacts of the war. UWEC Work Group.
This article has been published in Ukrainian and will be coming out in English and Russian in the very near future.
The year 2024 became the hottest in 176 years of observations: the average near-surface air temperature on Earth for the first time exceeded the pre-industrial level (the average temperature in 1850–1900) by more than 1.5°C and reached 15.1°C. The year 2025 was slightly cooler (by 0.13°C), but it continues the negative trend of increasing greenhouse…
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A combat zone is not only ruins, but also fields riddled with explosion craters. What could be done after the war? Agricultural lands in Ukraine during the war In 2022, UWEC—an organization uniting environmental scientists and activists from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, and the United States—analyzed a satellite image of an arable field near the…
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Whether the decision is made to restore destroyed cities or to build new ones, two questions will inevitably arise: what to do with the ruined cities, and how dangerous are they for the environment? Asbestos in Construction Debris In 2017, Doctor of Technical Sciences Hennadiy Drozd, a professor at Luhansk State University, studied the possibilities…
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History does not teach people well. Tragedies are forgotten, and power-hunger and hatred take over. Then the old questions arise again. Humanity has already thought about rebuilding ruined cities. It took 10 years to rebuild Stalingrad, 21 years to rebuild Warsaw, and in Dresden, the last ruined building, the Frauenkirche, was only restored in 2005….
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