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The progress (evolution) of a civilization based on natural resources development has resulted in permanent natural environment destruction. By the beginning of the third millennium it has become evident that exploitation of the planet's mineral resources, being the basis for the existence and progress of civilization, is the cause of the global environmental crisis. The Mining Institute has substantiated a methodology of restoration of natural ecosystems (ecological restoration), which consists in using an idea o...

The paper considers the state of the vegetation cover of the high-mountain valley of Kok Jailau, which is located in the central part of the Ile (Zailiyskiy) Alatau Ridge (Northern Tien Shan). The results of the study showed a different degree of anthropogenic transformation of the vegetation cover. It is noted that in the natural (background) state the vegetation cover was preserved only in hard-to-reach areas, mainly in the upper part of the mountains (on steep slopes of the Kumbel Ridge, river valleys, etc.). T...

According to the Aridity Index (R), at the level of the Eastern Romanian Plain have been identified certain areas of aridity intensity, differentiated from the West to the East as a result of the degree of continentalism increasing, which also led to a specific geobotanic zoning (the forest area, the interference between the forest-steppe, ante-steppe and steppe). The degree of vegetation coverage is an objective indicator of susceptibility of soil and/or land to degradation processes, which are manifested on larg...