Oleksandra Shepel

Twenty-three years have passed since The Day of April 26 divided human fates into “before” and “after” the disaster at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Until this day it is the world’s worst anthropogenic catastrophe unmatched for its environmental impact. For Ukraine Chornobyl is an...

Environmental problems are a constant worry for biologists, ecologists, and physicians. Ukraine’s leading experts agree that air, water, and ground pollution pose the greatest threat to humans. Other acute problems include domestic and industrial waste disposal, radiation, and shrinking forests,...