Greenpeace was measured by the level of environmental pollution from highways in eight Russian cities. Interactive map. "Greenpeace" published a map of the Ecological Map of Greenpeace destroyed in Russia

The International Environmental Organization "Greenpeace" published data from maps confirming the reduction of forest cover in the regions of Russia. Forests are destroyed due to construction work and under agricultural, as well as fires and cuttings of "black" lumberjacks.

Employees of the University of Maryland have published the results of monitoring Russian forests on the website of the public organization "World Forest Watch". According to this data, last year, Russia irrevocably lost 5.3 million hectares of forests. On an interactive map, the environmentalists noted the Red Territory, on which forests had disappeared over the past 17 years. Blue on the map marked areas where the forest was restored.

Ecology has demonstrated an interactive map of forest cover loss in the country. - under losses in this case are meant in mind as irreversible changes (the classic deforest - reducing the areas of forests as a result of their development, clearing for agriculture and the like illegal needs) and reversible - cutting, Gary, and the like, after which over time Forest cover is restored, - explained in Greenpeace.

The group of the greatest (emergency) risk includes the Republic of Buryatia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk and Tomsk regions. These four Siberian regions can be unequivocally considered unfavorable by the loss of forest cover (the most disadvantaged not only in Siberia and the Far East, but also throughout the country), concluded in Greenpeace. The group of high risk from the Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern constituent entities of the Russian Federation includes Yamalo-Nenets JSC, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Amur Region, the Republic of Tyva, the Khanty-Mansiysk JSC and the Trans-Baikal Territory. "Taking into account the colossal losses in past decades that are not reflected in the latest data from the University of Maryland, as well as taking into account the fact that with modern forest management they choose the best forests from the remaining (according to the principle of raisin of raisin) - their level of risk is rather close To emergency, "explanates environmentalists. In the remaining Siberian and Far Eastern regions, the situation with modern loss of forest cover - of course, on average for each region - relatively more calm. But this is only with modern losses - and the forests of many regions were extremely ruined and depleted by past mismanagement, and the scale of forest losses from fires and other unproductive factors over time, unfortunately, grow. In European Russia, the scale of losses of forest cover is mainly much smaller than in Siberia and in the Far East; Nevertheless, in some regions of the Russian Federation due to intensive forest management, large areas of Sancock and significant scale clearing the intensity of change causes serious concerns. For example, in the Moscow region, it is (also on average in five years) 0.62% per year, and in the Leningrad region - 0.58% per year, reports

In the summer of 2018, Russian volunteers in conjunction with the organization Greenpeace under the project # Greenpisports came to a large-scale study of local air pollution from highways in eight Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Kazan, Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don.

If you live in one of the eight cities participating in the study, check the level of air pollution next to your home can be in the Greenpeace online map.

According to the results obtained, in half the samples, which were taken closer than 20 meters from the road, the average daily concentration of toxic gas NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) exceeded Russian standards - 40 μg / m3. In a third of the samples, assembled at a distance from 20 to 50 meters from highways, the average daily concentration of NO2 was close to to exceed the norm.

"Nitrogen dioxide is toxic gas that has a pronounced irritant effect of respiratory tract and a general-toxic effect, which leads to health problems. One of the main sources of air pollution with nitrogen dioxide are vehicles with internal combustion engines - first of all, low environmental class and diesel, "the expert of the Russian branch of Greenpeace Vasily Appleov explained.

The results of the study showed that the concentration of nitrogen dioxide, primarily depends on the proximity to roads with intensive movement.

"It doesn't matter at all, in which location you live - big or small. It is important how close you are close to the road: in any city there will be dirty air next to the road, - continues apples. - In Moscow, and in Samara, you can find places with clean air, distant from roads. But if there are problems with movement, for example, congestion, and the city does not cope with the number of cars, it is an indirect sign of problems with air pollution, "applied apple.

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The study was carried out using the diffusion tubes of the Palace (in the photo) mounted at different distance from the road. Inside the tube there is a substance that enters into a chemical reaction with nitrogen dioxide. After 2-3 weeks, the tube is closed with a lid and sent to the laboratory, where they look at the results of the reaction, as a result of which the average daily concentration of nitrogen dioxide is derived.

In Russia, air pollution every year leads to 80-140 thousand premature deaths (about 5-7% of the total mortality of Russians), noted in the organization.

"So far, on our roads there is such a number of transportation ecology, roads and sites around them will be the zones of increased risk for health," says appals.

Greenpeace believe that to solve these problems, first of all, the ecological class of cars should be enhanced. Now Russia is lagging behind European countries on the introduction of environmental standards on vehicles: if the Euro-7 standard has almost adopted in Europe, then Euro-5 began to operate in Russia.

"In addition, it is necessary to create restrictive zones for non-environmental transport. And, of course, it is necessary to give priority to public transport, pedestrian and cycling zones in cities. All this will help reduce the number of trips on cars, which will directly affect the number of emissions into the atmosphere, "explained apple.

At the same time, to say exactly how serious the problems with air pollution in Russia, according to him, it is difficult, since there is no due control by the authorities. According to the law, Rospotrebnadzor is obliged to inform people about air pollution, but in the standards of the department not specified, in which format and volume should be done. As noted in Greenpeace, now it is very difficult to get this information. The organization wrote a complaint to the prosecutor's office due to the lack of an answer to the deadline established by law and launched to achieve from the department to timely publish these data online.

"Sources of harmful emissions in your city may be different: transport, landfills, plants and other objects. But in order to reduce the level of pollution, in any case reliable information about him is needed, "the expert of the Russian branch of Greenpeace.

The Greenpeace's Russian branch conducted a large-scale study of air pollution in large cities, including in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Volunteers revealed the dependence of the concentration of nitrogen dioxide (toxic and dangerous gas) from proximity to sources of pollution, primarily to large roads.

Based on the study, Greenpeace published an interactive map for eight cities in Russia. "Paper" Publishes it and a summary of the study.

The results of the study showed that the concentration of nitrogen dioxide (toxic, dangerous for the health of the substance) depends on the proximity to the sources of pollution, first of all - to roads with intensive motor vehicles.

In half of the samples, which took the Greenpeace closer than 20 meters from the road, the average daily concentration of nitrogen dioxide exceeded Russian standards (40 μg / m³). In a third of the samples, assembled at a distance from 20 to 50 meters from highways, the average daily concentration was 30-40 μg / m³, that is, it was close to to exceed Russian standards.

In St. Petersburg, volunteers installed 80 tubes to measure nitrogen dioxide concentration. Total collected 46 samples. Of these, 12 are less than 20 meters from highways, eight of which showed a concentration of more than 40 μg / m³ (exceeding Russian standards). In the study of air pollution participated "Paper"By installing some of the tubes.

In this case, the same result was recorded by three tubes from 21, placed at a distance of more than 100 meters from large roads. The maximum concentration of nitrogen dioxide - 57.51 μg / m³ was recorded at the address large SAMPSONIEV, 98.

In Moscow, 11 out of 17 tubes (at a distance of less than 20 meters from roads) revealed exceeding the norm of the concentration of harmful gas. Of the 37, placed at a distance of more than 100 meters from large highways, only four showed this result.

The maximum concentrations of nitrogen dioxide among all cities were recorded in Moscow.

The study, among other things, confirmed that in cities near residential buildings there are excess of hygienic norms of the background concentration of nitrogen dioxide, and this negatively affects the health of the inhabitants.

Volunteers offered less use of low environmental quality personal transport, popularize public transport and begin effective air quality control. They also called on Rospotrebnadzor to inform people in online mode about air pollution, which agency, according to their data, does not.