Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The climate of Russia is formed under the European peninsula. The enormous size of the country and the remoteness of many areas from the sea result in the dominance of the continental climate , which is prevalent in European and Asian Russia except for the tundra and the best extreme southeast.
The Arctic resources race is the competition between global entities for newly available natural resources of the Arctic.Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, five nations have the legal right to exploit the Arctic's natural resources within their exclusive economic zones: Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States (though the U.S. has yet to ratify the treaty ...
Environmental issues in Russia include pollution and erosion, and have impacts on people, wildlife and ecosystems.. Many of the issues have been attributed to policies that were made during the early Soviet Union, at a time when many officials felt that pollution control was an unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization, and, even though numerous attempts were made by ...
The administrations of all reserves are subordinated to state institutions of Ukraine: the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine ( Kazantip and Opuk Nature Reserves (hereinafter - PZ), Charivna Havan National Nature Park), the State Forest Resources Agency ( Crimean Nature Reserve and Yalta Mountain-Forest Nature Reserve ...
The Russia–Ukraine conflict has had a profound impact on water resources and water infrastructure. [65] Rivers and water bodies are strategically important objects. The Dnieper, Donets, and Irpin serve as natural defences. The Black Sea also became a theatre of war.
Climate change is putting an ever-growing number of people “under threat from extreme weather, food insecurity, and humanitarian disasters, fueling migration flows and increasing the risks of ...
Ukraine should seek reparations from Russia for environmental costs such as contamination by land mines, a group of international figures including climate activist Greta Thunberg and European ...
Environmental activism is a growing movement in Russia and it has developed into different shapes and forms, such as campaigns aiming to tackle both local and regional problems but also to address concerns including pollution, expansion of industries, non-sustainable forestry and further on.