Environmental impact of war

Environmental impact of war - environmental problems caused by warfare. Article “Environmental impact of war” in English Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 224 references and 36 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Environmental impact of war” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Environmental impact of war”, its content was written by 162 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 237 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 411 times in English Wikipedia and cited 673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6284 in April 2024
• Global: #7555 in May 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #103679 in March 2022
• Global: #190694 in March 2022

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Environmental impact of war		90
2	Turkish (tr) Savaşın çevresel etkisi		83.2307
3	Indonesian (id) Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan		82.8571
4	Spanish (es) Impacto ambiental de la guerra		78.2623
5	Ukrainian (uk) Вплив війни на довкілля		75.1084
6	Portuguese (pt) Impacto ambiental da guerra		72.0455
7	Italian (it) Impatto ambientale della guerra		71.8311
8	French (fr) Impact environnemental de la guerre		38.4815
9	Arabic (ar) الأثر البيئي للحرب		28.1055
10	Slovak (sk) Znečistenie životného prostredia vojenskou činnosťou		20.5358

More...

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Environmental impact of war" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Environmental impact of war		716 205
2	Arabic (ar) الأثر البيئي للحرب		17 859
3	Spanish (es) Impacto ambiental de la guerra		11 548
4	Ukrainian (uk) Вплив війни на довкілля		9 370
5	French (fr) Impact environnemental de la guerre		6 541
6	Italian (it) Impatto ambientale della guerra		5 566
7	Turkish (tr) Savaşın çevresel etkisi		3 916
8	Indonesian (id) Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan		2 794
9	Portuguese (pt) Impacto ambiental da guerra		2 201
10	Slovak (sk) Znečistenie životného prostredia vojenskou činnosťou		1 031

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Environmental impact of war" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Environmental impact of war		3 941
2	Italian (it) Impatto ambientale della guerra		501
3	Spanish (es) Impacto ambiental de la guerra		304
4	French (fr) Impact environnemental de la guerre		255
5	Portuguese (pt) Impacto ambiental da guerra		73
6	Ukrainian (uk) Вплив війни на довкілля		69
7	Turkish (tr) Savaşın çevresel etkisi		61
8	Indonesian (id) Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan		55
9	Arabic (ar) الأثر البيئي للحرب		49
10	Korean (ko) 전쟁이 환경에 미치는 영향		24

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Environmental impact of war" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Environmental impact of war		162
2	Slovak (sk) Znečistenie životného prostredia vojenskou činnosťou		26
3	French (fr) Impact environnemental de la guerre		15
4	Italian (it) Impatto ambientale della guerra		14
5	Spanish (es) Impacto ambiental de la guerra		5
6	Portuguese (pt) Impacto ambiental da guerra		4
7	Arabic (ar) الأثر البيئي للحرب		3
8	Turkish (tr) Savaşın çevresel etkisi		3
9	Persian (fa) پیامد زیست‌محیطی جنگ		2
10	Indonesian (id) Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan		2

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Environmental impact of war" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Environmental impact of war		5
2	Italian (it) Impatto ambientale della guerra		1
3	Arabic (ar) الأثر البيئي للحرب		0
4	Spanish (es) Impacto ambiental de la guerra		0
5	Persian (fa) پیامد زیست‌محیطی جنگ		0
6	French (fr) Impact environnemental de la guerre		0
7	Indonesian (id) Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan		0
8	Korean (ko) 전쟁이 환경에 미치는 영향		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Impacto ambiental da guerra		0
10	Slovak (sk) Znečistenie životného prostredia vojenskou činnosťou		0

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Environmental impact of war" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Environmental impact of war		411
2	Persian (fa) پیامد زیست‌محیطی جنگ		80
3	Arabic (ar) الأثر البيئي للحرب		73
4	Korean (ko) 전쟁이 환경에 미치는 영향		47
5	French (fr) Impact environnemental de la guerre		41
6	Turkish (tr) Savaşın çevresel etkisi		13
7	Slovak (sk) Znečistenie životného prostredia vojenskou činnosťou		2
8	Ukrainian (uk) Вплив війни на довкілля		2
9	Spanish (es) Impacto ambiental de la guerra		1
10	Indonesian (id) Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan		1

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الأثر البيئي للحرب
en	English Environmental impact of war
es	Spanish Impacto ambiental de la guerra
fa	Persian پیامد زیست‌محیطی جنگ
fr	French Impact environnemental de la guerre
id	Indonesian Dampak perang terhadap lingkungan
it	Italian Impatto ambientale della guerra
ko	Korean 전쟁이 환경에 미치는 영향
pt	Portuguese Impacto ambiental da guerra
sk	Slovak Znečistenie životného prostredia vojenskou činnosťou
tr	Turkish Savaşın çevresel etkisi
uk	Ukrainian Вплив війни на довкілля

Best Rank

English: #103679 03.2022

Global: #190694 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #6284 04.2024

Global: #7555 05.2022

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ajit Pawar, Border 2, Sharad Pawar, Killing of Alex Pretti, Ilhan Omar, Sunetra Pawar, Todd Monken, Kristi Noem, Wonder Man (miniseries), Gregory Bovino.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information