2022 too short, too far: How the Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted the world
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
A year of war: Step back from the brink, Guterres urges at UN General Assembly special session on Ukraine
Some 20,000 civilians and many soldiers are dead and countless more injured, while eight million refugees have spread across Europe and beyond
Why is there a wheat crisis in Pakistan?
Experts say that the crisis has been caused by several reasons, the first being the Russia-Ukraine war
Russo-Ukrainian Conflict: Is the Kremlin using food as a weapon of war
There is growing belief that Russia is doing so, given its exit from the Black Sea grain deal and targeted attacks on food supplies in Ukraine
Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide: New study
The energy price increase due to the Russian-Ukraine war would not have had such an extreme impact if not for over-dependence on fossil fuels
A female-only herd of European bison in war-torn Ukraine is looking for mates
After all male bison in Zalissia National Nature disappeared during Russian invasion, WWF launches campaign to translocate bull bison and …
2023: Cheer for dissent and dialogue
We have to recognise that an alternative exists
8 million women and girls require urgent humanitarian aid in Ukraine amid 2 years of conflict
Gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking, has surged: UN Women
Could the Ukraine dam attack pose risks to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant? Experts explain
International Atomic Energy Agency is due to visit Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia plant next week, following Nova Kakhovka dam attack
The war in Ukraine hasn’t left Europe freezing in the dark, but it has caused energy crises in unexpected places
Europe’s intensive energy stockpiling in the summer of 2022 caused a huge jump in global prices for LNG. Many utilities in less developed …
Ukraine war: What we know about Nova Kakhovka dam and who gains from its destruction
A major dam in Russia-occupied southern Ukraine suffered a collapse June 6, 2023
Wisent: Ukraine war could wreck efforts to save and rewild Europe’s great wild bovid, say new study authors
Parts of Poland, Ukraine, western Russia, parts of the Balkans and Germany most appropriate to rewild wisent
Russia has turned the Dnipro into a major weapon of war: Paul Josephson
Down To Earth speaks to specialist in Soviet and Russian history about the impact of two years of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Dnipro river
Why is a wisent herd in Ukraine on the brink of extinction? Can matchmaking save them?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has decimated the population of male wisent in the Zalissia National Nature Park; translocating two …
The destroyed Kakhovka dam once symbolised Russian-Ukrainian harmony
When the dam was under construction, the oppression of Josef Stalin’s rule and the suffering of the Nazi invasion seemed over
The Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment
Russia has seen the new nonaligned movement as an opening to bolster its own position
COP27: Russian invasion of Ukraine released 8 million tonnes carbon till September, says report
At least 1.4 million tonnes of GHG emissions have been released due to the movement of refugees, both within Ukraine and to Europe due to the …
How does the Ukraine invasion lead to a world food crisis?
Russia and Ukraine are among the largest producers and exporters of grain globally. Because of the invasion, a large stockpile of grain and …
Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine — and what that means for the global food system
Ukrainian grain is important for feeding the world and the the Black Sea is a vital route to getting it to people who need it.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put pressure on global food, energy supplies; and Africa is most affected
Forty-one African countries are being impacted by a triple crisis of food, energy and finance due to the war in Ukraine, says UN report
How Ukraine invasion will hit Russia’s marginalised: An indigenous activist explains
Down To Earth talks to Pavel Sulyandziga, an indigenous activist about what is happening in Russia, especially to its indigenous and marginalised …
A year of Russia-Ukraine war: Global fossil fuel ‘bonanza’ may lead to more conflicts, warns Greenpeace
‘Neo-colonial models of extracting fossil fuels at any cost have to come to an end’
Why sunflower oil lovers need to worry about Russia-Ukraine war
India imports about 90% of sunflower oil from Russia and Ukraine; but the Russian invasion of Ukraine has severely affected imports; besides, …
The invasion of Ukraine has raised some difficult questions about human rights
In both, Russia and Ukraine, the people’s right to civilian existence has been taken away
Food crisis: Food-insecure population doubled in 2 years, says UN Secretary-General
Agencies call upon countries to increase food production and not to stop export as the Russia-Ukraine war rages on