{"id":8376,"date":"2022-07-16T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2022-07-16T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T14:55:35","slug":"the-pollution-from-russias-war-will-poison-ukraine-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8376","title":{"rendered":"The pollution from Russia\u2019s war will poison Ukraine for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Ukraine covers less than 6 percent of Europe\u2019s land area, but it\u2019s home to more than a third<\/a> of the continent\u2019s biodiversity. It\u2019s also highly industrialized, with hundreds of chemical plants<\/a>, nearly 150 coal mines<\/a>, and more than a dozen nuclear reactors<\/a> \u2014 including Europe\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, one obvious problem is the destruction of these facilities. In March, shelling in the northern Ukrainian town of Novoselytsya caused an ammonia leak<\/a> at a fertilizer factory, threatening residents<\/a> by contaminating groundwater and soil. Then there are those exploding tanks<\/a> of nitric acid. Meanwhile, damage to coal-fired power plants can cause electrical water pumps to fail, allowing contaminated water in mines to spill over and pollute the groundwater.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Russia has also attacked oil and gas storage facilities<\/a>, lighting up the sky with explosions that pollute the air and release carbon dioxide.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The stuff inside the rockets that both sides are using can poison the environment, too, according to<\/a> the Ukrainian advocacy group Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction. When they explode, artillery rockets can produce a number of noxious substances including hydrogen cyanide vapor and nitrogen oxides, which can cause acid rain, Ecoaction said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, the Ukrainian army shot down a Russian missile, and some of the debris fell on an agricultural site, leaking toxic chemicals into the soil and water, CNN\u2019s Ivana Kottasov\u00e1 reported<\/a>. Officials told people living nearby not to drink water from wells and there were reports of dead fish in a river several miles away, Kottasov\u00e1 reported.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/2022\/6\/2\/23143250\/ukraine-russia-war-pollution-emissions-environment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Ukraine covers less than 6 percent of Europe\u2019s land area, but it\u2019s home to more than a third of the continent\u2019s biodiversity. It\u2019s also highly industrialized, with hundreds of chemical plants, nearly 150 coal mines, and more than a dozen nuclear reactors \u2014 including Europe\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n

So, one obvious problem is the destruction of these facilities. In March, shelling in the northern Ukrainian town of Novoselytsya caused an ammonia leak at a fertilizer factory, threatening residents by contaminating groundwater and soil. Then there are those exploding tanks of nitric acid. Meanwhile, damage to coal-fired power plants can cause electrical water pumps to fail, allowing contaminated water in mines to spill over and pollute the groundwater.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Russia has also attacked oil and gas storage facilities, lighting up the sky with explosions that pollute the air and release carbon dioxide.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The stuff inside the rockets that both sides are using can poison the environment, too, according to the Ukrainian advocacy group Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction. When they explode, artillery rockets can produce a number of noxious substances including hydrogen cyanide vapor and nitrogen oxides, which can cause acid rain, Ecoaction said.<\/p>\n

In April, the Ukrainian army shot down a Russian missile, and some of the debris fell on an agricultural site, leaking toxic chemicals into the soil and water, CNN\u2019s Ivana Kottasov\u00e1 reported. Officials told people living nearby not to drink water from wells and there were reports of dead fish in a river several miles away, Kottasov\u00e1 reported.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,103,1545,359,315,311,158],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-environment","tag-invasion","tag-pollution","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/8377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}