MONITORING THE INFLUENCE OF COAL MAN-MADE LANDSCAPES ON THE ATMOSPHERE OF COAL-MINING REGIONS

Abstract

According to studies of recent decades, Ukraine is one of the most polluted and environmentally problematic countries in the world. The level of pressure on the environment in Ukraine has increased significantly during the fighting, starting in 2014 in the Donbas, and has deteriorated significantly since 2022. At the present stage of social development, the process of formation and implementation of an effective and efficient state environmental policy, taking into account the existing natural resource potential of the regions and the possibility of their transformation into the national economy, is of particular importance. In recent years, although there has been a decline in production, the annual level of environmental pollution is quite high, including due to incorrect reclamation after the closure of coal mining enterprises. The influence of human activity on the structures of the Earth's surface, today, is especially noticeable in the mining regions, where significant masses of rocks have been brought to the surface and new structures have been created. Human intervention in the process of landscape development leads to new relationships between its components due to the processes of oxidation of rocks brought to the surface and the release of energy and gas mixtures into the atmosphere.   The coal-mining regions of Ukraine, which are in a state of deep technogenic changes and transformations, have a chance to use the results of intensive geological and technogenic realities for the conclusions of the search for the scientific foundations of nature management and environmental conservation. At the present stage of social development, which is characterized by the acceleration of the pace of scientific and technological progress on the one hand, the aggravation of environmental problems and environmental pollution, on the other hand, the process of formation and implementation of an effective and efficient state environmental policy, taking into account the existing natural resource potential of the regions, is of particular importance.