In this chapter, the diversity of traditional forest-related knowledge and associated practices鈥攁s well as the problems and the prospects for their preservation鈥攁re introduced by focussing on selected, contrasting areas in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. ...
The Chinese top diplomat stressed that China will seek its national rejuvenation through peaceful development, and is willing to jointly build a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness, justice and win-win cooperation in order to build a community of shared future for ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ignited the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian government agencies, civil society organizations, and international agencies have gathered an unprecedented amount of data about the impact of war on the environment, which is oft...
This article on collateral damage of Russia’s war with Ukraine comes with this stunning sub-headline: The invasion [of Ukraine] is first and foremost a human tragedy,but it is also dire for wildlife, stalling scientific work on polar bears and other wildlife threatened with extinction. ...
Kyiv letter: Ukraine fears nuclear plants in Russia’s sights as missile strikes bring winter blackouts Atomic power stations are vital to Ukraine after Moscow’s military destroys much of its energy grid and conventional stations By Daniel McLaughlinMon Nov 25 2024 - 16:11 ...
The Russia–Ukraine War is impacting global food systems, which may trigger global cropland expansion and consequently lead to biodiversity loss far from war zones. To quantify such impacts on biodiversity, we simulated the global cropland expansion provoked by the reshaping of international virtual ...
These settlers mixed with Slavs from the west and built a fortress that would eventually become the Ukrainian city of Kiev. Kiev evolved into an empire that ruled most of European Russia for 200 years, then broke up into Ukraine, Belarus and Muscovy. Muscovy’s capital, Moscow, remained a ...
The contribution is aimed at assessing the state of the tourism industry in actual conditions of the global economic and geopolitical uncertainty. The authors analyze the contribution of this branch to the GDP of different countries and compare the dynamics of changes of key economic indicators over...
Currently, Russia has granted approval for 2,247 pesticide registration certificates across 273 companies. These companies are categorized by their countries and regions, with the leading nine being Russia, Japan, the United States, China, Switzerland, India, Germany, Ukraine, and Hungary. Together,...
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