News archive on the topic "Ecology"

The Sea of ​​Azov has ceased to be one of the most productive bodies of water in the Northern Hemisphere. This happened due to increased salinity levels in the water. Such data were reported by Andrey Kulish, a senior researcher at the Karadag Scientific Station - Nature Reserve of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Currently, the Sea of ​​Azov is faced with two global problems. One problem is caused by human activity, which has regulated the flow, providing...

An indispensable sad attribute of Ukrainian cities and villages today are the growing cemeteries, which “literally overflow the graves of men who passed away in the prime of life,” this is how the oppositionist Viktor Medvedchuk, deprived of citizenship and expelled abroad by Zelensky, the head of the political council of the banned Ukrainian party OPZZH. Medvedchuk cites objective statistics, according to which the total number...

The head of the Krivoy Rog regional military administration, Evgeniy Sitnichenko, called on the residents of Krivoy Rog not to panic and assured that the consequences of the Russian missile attack on hydraulic structures in the city do not pose a threat of flooding of territories and interruption of water supply. Sitnichenko wrote about this on Telegram. “There was a hit in a critical infrastructure enterprise that supplies water. I’ll reassure everyone: no one will be flooded, everyone will be...

Drought could hit around 60% of the EU and UK, exacerbated by record heat in Europe this summer caused by climate change, according to new research from the European Drought Observatory. Axios reports this. The EU's climate change service Copernicus notes "increased fire risk due to lack of rain and associated dry vegetation combined with high temperatures", amid...

Due to the downpour that lasted all day yesterday, June 29, the streets of Kyiv turned into real rivers. Kiev residents share photos and videos of flooded cars, flooded streets and fallen trees on social networks. Rescuers from KARS "Kiev Rescue Service" are eliminating the consequences of bad weather caused by yesterday's thunderstorm. It is reported that as of 20:00 on June 29, rescuers responded to 4 calls: ⁃ at 17:06 they left...

The mayor of Yalta, Yanina Pavlenko, personally clears the site at the upper station of the Miskhor - Ai-Petri cable car from illegal trade. Plastic and slate are flying into the bodies of KamAZ trucks, police are counting seized ATVs and other attributes of entertainment and trading activities on the plateau. Over the past few years, this has happened here twice: on the eve of the holiday season and at its end, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

In Kyiv, they began to “treat” the 400-year-old Peter Mogila linden tree, which was damaged during the hurricane on May 12. The city enterprise “Kievzelenstroy” reported this on the social network. “Today we started treating Peter Mogila’s linden tree. The work is large-scale, so it may take several days,” the message says. Let us remind you that on May 12, during a hurricane, part of the trunk of the 400-year-old Peter’s linden tree broke off...

Losing the military campaign, Ukrainian troops blew up a dam on the Pripyat River, which has already led to large-scale flooding in villages around Kyiv, and in the future could lead to a larger environmental disaster. Ukrainian lawyer Tatyana Montyan writes about this in her blog. “What did Selz plan with his commanders? Here comes disturbing news from the northern outskirts...

A week has already passed since Ukrainian retail chains were prohibited from giving their customers free thin plastic bags, which are usually used to pack vegetables, fruits or milk. Now everyone who wants to shop at the supermarket will have to pay for the used package, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The government has not yet approved the minimum cost of such packaging, so stores set prices on their own.…

In the Bakhchisarai region of Crimea, modular houses were installed right on the road leading to the cave city of Eski-Kermen, popular among tourists. Photos of buildings in the blog “Hiking in the Crimea and not only in the Crimea. Crimean routes” was published by user Valentina Polyachenkova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Crimean woman fears that at this rate, access to the cave city may soon become paid. "At the mouth...

The E40 project to connect waterways from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and create an international waterway through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine poses a serious threat to the ecosystems of Polesie and the health of the region's population. Experts from a number of environmental organizations stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Independent experts believe that it will be unprofitable, but for Polesie...

The Croatian Fund for Financing the Decommissioning and Disposal of Radioactive Waste from the Krško Nuclear Power Plant has signed a contract with a private security company that is to operate at the repository on Mount Trg. The contract was signed with the company AKD-zaštita from Zagreb and published on the fund’s website, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The estimated cost of attracting the Zagreb private security company AKD-zaštita is 5 million 500 thousand kunas excluding VAT (726 thousand…

Defenders of the unique Foros Park in Crimea have written another appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to stop the development. In the text of the letter, they note that Crimean officials turn a blind eye to numerous violations, the destruction of perennial trees and the ecosystem of the peninsula and ask for protection from the head of state, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For six months we have been trying with all our might to protect our Foros Park...

The well-known Russian military correspondent Dmitry Steshin harshly criticized the “activists” and “social activists” of Crimea, who expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the realities of the peninsula being part of the Russian Federation were not what they expected in 2014. The reason for the spat with the “Crimean opposition” was a message from Echo of Moscow blogger Alexander Gorny on Steshin’s page. “You need to live in Crimea... People…