Russia

During the Soviet period, land and water resources went through a lot of degradation. Areas, like the Kuznetsk Basin, and the lower Volga River, were poorly degraded, and nuclear weapons caused permanent damage in Southern Siberia, and Ural Mountains. Another cause is airborne-pollutants which have affected vegetation in many areas of Russia, and once again Sulphur is one of the deadly pollutants causing damages around the country. Winds spread these pollutants all over the country and countries bordering it and damage the environment. Besides just air- pollutants, forests in some areas are facing deforestation due to logging and since the rate has increased foreign logging operation activities have been formed. Besides just the damaging of trees, air pollutants have accumulated in lakes, rivers, and oceans damaging the water and killing the animals.