Forests are central in developing solutions both to mitigate and adapt to climate change. These terrestrial ecosystems have already removed nearly one third of human-produced carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. …

On 8 October 2021, the UN Human Rights Council adopted resolution 48/13 recognizing that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. The establishment of citizen science dates back to the mid 1990-s, when a sociologist Alan Irwin described it as “a form of science developed and enacted…

The issue of animal rights protection is not only legal but also moral, ethical, and philosophical. Considering this issue in only one of its aspects will not give an opportunity to look at the whole picture. Therefore, this question is worth analyzing in the correlation of these three systems. Let’s…

Today, humanity is in a state of environmental crisis, and ecology problems are gradually becoming the top priority of the agenda. The most debatable and tangible is the climate change issue — we are experiencing its effects now. …

The number of oil spills in the ocean is growing exponentially, while the effectiveness of spills management measures remains far behind. The most famous recent cases of oil spills are Deepwater Horizon, Great Barrier Reef, Lambro and Po rivers, Port Arthur oil spill, etc. The year 2019 also did not…

The historical prerequisite for the need to regulate the circulation of GMO products, the use of GMOs and the general requirements for their creation or production was the creation of the first successful genetically engineered organism by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen in 1973. Scientists have developed a method that…

The trees play a critical role in the well-being of our planet Earth, and it is hard to imagine them disappear. Unfortunately, we live in an era when forests are mercilessly cut down and destroyed. But what will happen to our planet, if all trees become extinct? …