2022 too short, too far: How the Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted the world

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

A year of war: Step back from the brink, Guterres urges at UN General Assembly special session on Ukraine

Some 20,000 civilians and many soldiers are dead and countless more injured, while eight million refugees have spread across Europe and beyond  

Generous aid to Ukraine is diverting resources away from other refugee crises around the world

Even before the current Ukraine crisis, a gap between global humanitarian needs and requisite funding to address them was growing.  

Why is there a wheat crisis in Pakistan?

Experts say that the crisis has been caused by several reasons, the first being the Russia-Ukraine war

2023: Cheer for dissent and dialogue  

We have to recognise that an alternative exists  

Number of people forcibly displaced crossed 100 million in 2022: UNDP

Climate change could displace over 200 million people by 2050

The war in Ukraine hasn’t left Europe freezing in the dark, but it has caused energy crises in unexpected places

Europe’s intensive energy stockpiling in the summer of 2022 caused a huge jump in global prices for LNG. Many utilities in less developed …

COP27: Russian invasion of Ukraine released 8 million tonnes carbon till September, says report

At least 1.4 million tonnes of GHG emissions have been released due to the movement of refugees, both within Ukraine and to Europe due to the …

A year of Russia-Ukraine war: Global fossil fuel ‘bonanza’ may lead to more conflicts, warns Greenpeace

‘Neo-colonial models of extracting fossil fuels at any cost have to come to an end’

Extreme weather events, Russia-Ukriane war escalating onion prices globally

Countries banning exports to stabilise prices; posing threat to food security and nutrition