title: Editorial
abstract: In the fifth century BC, Herodotus described the country beyond the north wind as 'A plain with thick black soil, rich in grass'.Greeks settled the lower Dniester in the seventh century BC, calling the colony Tira and the river Tiras -it was navigable and rich in fish.They grew wheat and wine; grain was exported to metropolitan Greece, and fish and bunches of grapes are pictured on their coins; and, so, the steppe was ploughed [1].Subsequent authors have commented on the fertility of the black e
journal: International Journal of Environmental Studies