First person footage from the 1st battalion of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade working in the Donetsk region
At 0:13 you can see the machine gunner put his gun down on a PFM-1 anti personnel mine
Fortunately the mine isn’t that powerful and all of the fragments where captured by the gun itself leaving the machine gunner with only a small concussion
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia
#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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The linked picture of a forest devestated by the #Kremlin's #WarInUkraine inspired me to a quick research. My preliminary conclusion:
1) International scientists envision a relaunch of war-torn forests in postwar #Ukaine.
2) The Kremlin's regime should be indicted for mass #Ecocide, on top of #WarCrimes and #CrimesAgainstHumanity, and others.
Via #AprilReese @ science.org*
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https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-plan-comeback-ukraine-s-war-ravaged-forests (2023--04-19)
#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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"In addition to its horrific human toll, the #WarInUkraine has inflicted widespread damage on the nation’s forests. Bombs and missiles have sparked thousands of fires, and “artillery breaks trees in half—it basically mows the #forest
,”..."
"Since the #RussianInvasion began in February 2022, almost 20,000 #fires have burned across 755,638 hectares, according to remote sensing data."
"Even before the current war,...
#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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...#Ukraine’s forests were considered some of the world’s most damaged.
The expansion of agriculture in this major food exporter had vastly reduced forest cover; nearly half of #Ukraine is now cropland. In many of the forests that remained, open stands of fire-adapted Scots pine had been replaced by crowded,
more fire-prone plantations.
"
"“Economics, legislation, and habit” enable plantations to persist, ...
#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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...#Milakovsky said, despite increasing concerns that the #monocultures do relatively little to support native species and can suck up scarce water
..."
"...some #forestry experts say the destruction could lead to a major overhaul of how #Ukraine manages its forests
, changes they say will help ensure these landscapes
can better cope with #ClimateChange, support #biodiversity, and protect water quality.
"
"Researchers...
#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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...a long overdue policy shift."
“#Ukraine is pretty dry, and it’s getting drier.”
"Shrinking #plantations could avoid the “repeated depletion” of these water resources,.."
"Forests with mixed species and well-spaced trees of varying ages would be less susceptible to intense fires and the #droughts
that are expected to become more common as the region’s climate warms,.."
"Minister of Environmental Protection and...
#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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...Natural Resources #RuslanStrilets said #Ukraine is “moving towards the trend of creating mixed forests
, i.e. coniferous with deciduous, as well as the planting of additional shrubs.”"
#If done correctly, postwae #Ukraine could become an example for many other nations #forestry.
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Read on:
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-plan-comeback-ukraine-s-war-ravaged-forests
@HistoPol Thank you HistoPol, I appreciate your feedback. - Aure
#ClimateCatastrophe:
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Very welcome.
The #ClimateCatastrophy is the real threat to humanity:
"...2. The ultimate consequence of #GHGs in the atmosphere is that you destroy the basis of life – some experts say for 100,000 years, others 50 million, and some say the Earth will simply become like Venus
. In other words, for the first time in human history, a group of people, namely a 1% of wealthy elites, are responsible for destroying...
Source:
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112813077838695771
#ClimateCatastrophe:
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...everything forever...
"...the #UN has said we have *two years* in which to make radical changes
–..."
"... facts – more than 10,000 scientific and peer-reviewed papers, indicating an outcome of mass starvation and death from man-made climate collapse.
.."
Criminal #Christofascists like #Putler keep us from focussing on humanity's long-term survival.
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@HistoPol @Free_Press
I'm in the "we'll become Venus" camp...
... with an addendum that I believe a civilization once existed on Venus, hundreds of millions of years ago, but they shat the bed so hard, it ended up as we see now.
Just like we're doing to Earth now.
Side note: I also believe that the Chicxulub crater was another civilization's hubris brought crashing down.
I think civilizations spring up everywhere, all the time, but always kill themselves off somehow.
OFC there is no statistically relevant sample to corroborate your hypothesis, but given the two mass extinction-level events we know of, the cyano bacteria that probly were the first "beings" that destroyed their habitat on a global scale (#GreatOxidationEvent,)* and the ongoing anthropogenic #ecocide, it is entirely possible.
*https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112299889344401989
@HistoPol @Free_Press I hadda dig to find it (it's on my old account)
https://social.cologne/@BlippyTheWonderSlug/111895584095630889