Inha Pavlyi
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How Ukraine can integrate environmental security into national defense strategy
Ukraine can turn nature into a core pillar of national security through coordinated state and public action. Environmental risks must be integrated into national security strategies and treated on par with military threats. Creating joint teams within the National Security and Defense Council would enable rapid response to toxic spills, radiation, and ecological disasters. Citizens…
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Environmental security in the Middle East: lessons from Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon
Israel demonstrates how environmental security can be integrated into national defense and diplomacy. Climate risks are treated as threat multipliers affecting water, food, migration, and regional stability. Israel’s National Adaptation Plan embeds climate risks into defense assessments and allocates major funding to monitoring and sustainable infrastructure. Advanced environmental monitoring uses satellites, sensors, and mobile technologies…
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Occupied agricultural lands and biodiversity at risk in Ukraine
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. Although Ukraine covers less than 6% of Europe’s landmass, it is home to about 35% of the continent’s biodiversity. Many of the country’s rare and endemic…
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Environmental security in Ukraine: war, ecocide, and recovery
Environmental security links clean air, safe water, fertile soil, and public health to national survival. Ukrainian law defines it as preventing environmental deterioration and hazards to human health through state, business, and citizen action. Russia’s full-scale invasion dramatically expanded environmental threats: explosions, fires, mined fields, dam sabotage, and diverse pollution types now endanger ecosystems, food…
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Environmental security: a key element of Ukraine’s national policy
Wetlands as natural defense: how the Irpin wetlands stopped Russian tanks
Wetlands provide a variety of services: support biodiversity, regulate waterflow, and help to mitigate climatic impacts. They store carbon, recharge groundwater and reduce flood risks. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and EU environmental frameworks recognize their critical ecosystem services. The war has reshaped defense thinking in Europe. Latvia now restores peatlands as natural military barriers….
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Nature’s tank traps: How wetlands form a natural shield against military aggression
US exit from climate institutions amid record global warming
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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How warfare destroys Ukraine’s farmland and wildlife
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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