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The paper discusses problems associated with attempts at limiting waste that is the result of the functioning of the modern economy. This is associated with the use of new, sustainable systemic solutions in terms of the manner of designing cities and buildings that use existing resources to the highest possible degree while not generating waste. The impact of new, ecological cities is to be neutral to the extant ecosystem. Buildings are to be erected solely from recyclable materials and roofs covered in greenery i...

Educational resources collections in the Botanical garden of the Autonomous educational institution of higher professional education "Leningrad state University named after A. S. Pushkin", with more than 400 species and varieties of tropical and subtropical plant have been reviewed. Plants related to different biomes, ecological groups, floristic kingdoms and regions and plants cultivated in agriculture have been specified. The directions of using a collection of plants in the course of training courses of the dis...

The issue of preserving and protecting forests in the face of increasing human activity was presented as very up-to-date. Irrational human activity and fires have led to deforestation of places, once completely covered with forests. The area of tropical forests in Africa has decreased by 70 percent, South America ? by 60 percent, only 8 percent of Chinese territory is covered with forest. The article briefly examines the process of degradation of forest resources in the global economy. This study explores the long...

Almost 97 percent of water on the planet is seawater, 2.31 percent is frozen in glaciers; 0.66 percent is ground water, and only 0.03 percent of water is included in the hydrological cycle on the surface of the earth. The paper analyzes what factors of human behavior lead to a change in freshwater resources on the planet. The aim is to create a model which will show us the relations between the changes in fresh water reserves and human behavior. An ADL-model (autoregressive distributed lags model) was chosen as a ...

This article is considering anthropogenic and natural pollution, which leads to a change in global temperature. The article also talks about the Greenhouse effect and global climate change. The average global temperatures can fluctuate within years and even decades, for different natural reasons. The article analyses how the world pollution leads to a change in the global average temperature. The aim is to create a model that will show us the relations between the changes in global average temperature with the pol...

Wildlife crossings are structures that allow animals to cross human-made barriers safely. Wildlife overpasses are the reverse of most conventional bridges in terms of structural engineering, and this has implications for how they are designed. The Environmental Protection concerns mainly the fauna, because the development of communication and the construction of new transport routes has been increasingly fragmenting the natural environment. To fix the errors, arising from the fragmentation of the natural environme...

Sludge from sewage formats municipal byproducts are considered "undesirable" that focuses remove pollutants from wastewater and can be a danger to the environment.Lupeni dump was born by storing the waste material resulting from the preparation of coal.The material deposited on the two branches of the heap consists of sandstone rocks clay, marl, carbonaceous shales and sandstones.From the analysis it is observed that: the reaction is slightly alkaline soil (pH = 7.4); humus content: medium to good; containing coar...

Currently, there is an increase in the output of volumes of products of refineries, which leads to the contamination of the water basin by hazardous substances - such as dissolved refined products. Pollution of water resources leads to deterioration of the ecological situation. Existing cleaning methods, such as mechanical cleaning, reagent cleaning, hydrocyclones cleaning, sewage from oil products are not effective. These methods do not provide for the purification of effluents to the required MPC or are costly, ...

Water is essential for life. The amount of drinking water required is variable. It depends on physical activity, age, health issues, and environmental conditions. For those working in a hot climate, up to 16 liters a day may be required. Water makes up about 60% of weight in men and 55% of weight in women. Infants are about 70% to 80% water while the elderly are around 45%. [1] Far from thinking of promoting certain national bodies, the study shows several necessary aspects for evaluating drinking water situation ...

Russia is one of the most important players in the Arctic Zone with significant economic, security and political interests on these territories. This is primarily because of significant natural resources, in particular oil and gas, in the Russian Arctic. The objective of this paper is to define the main prospects of strategic development of the Russian Arctic zone, and to offer socioecological approach to its development. Arctic has considerable strategic importance to the Russian economy. Strategic development of...

Construction development of forest-tundra areas shall take into account their peculiar characteristics: enhanced susceptibility of landscape components to man-made impact, presence of permafrost, and also insufficient exploration of environmental conditions. These factors make it essential to carry out a detailed investigation of natural and man-made conditions as a part of engineering and environmental surveys during environmental feasibility study of the projected construction in such areas. This work is dedicat...

In the 1970s the rainbow trout species (Parasalmo (O.) mykiss Walbaum, 1792) had been introduced in Kazakhstan water bodies by three batches from Kamchatka nurseries (Russia). Investigations of condition of the introduced trout have not been performed since 1982. We conducted the field researches in two lakes and six rivers in the Almaty region (Republic of Kazakhstan) during 2015-2016. Geographical and hydrological characteristics had been studied directly during expeditions, made in six river heads, along their ...

The importance of the ecological exploitation of the treated sludge consists in the fact that it is generated in the treatment plants 365 days from 365, 24 hours from 24, but unfortunately the sludge exploitation is limited nowadays, no matter the chosen option. Practically there are no standard solutions, all the research options, respectively the exploitation of the sludge require costs and cooperation with the thirds, plus the sludge quality must conform to certain values imposed by law. The difficulty elements...

The article is a review of numerous studies devoted to the problem of identifying the main sources of pollution of the Ilek River and the underground water of its valley. The main sources of pollution are: the old sludge collector; new sludge collector; industrial site, soils polluted by the Alga Chemical Factory and dust from the dried surface of the sludge accumulators and the slag pipelines emergency leakage. It is established that in the sludge accumulators area the river drains heavily underground water conta...