C OVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey (n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic predicted their health and well-being. We obtained subsamples from 12 countries-Bangladesh,

Local environmental grassroots activism is robust and globally ubiquitous despite the ebbs and flows of the general environmental movement. In this review we synthesize social movement, environmental politics, and environmental psychology literatures to answer the following questions: How does the environment emerge as a topic for community action and how a particular environmental discourse (preservation, conservation, public health, Deep Ecology, justice, localism and other responses to modernization and development) becomes dominant? How does a community coalesce around the environmental issue and its particular framing? What is the relationship between local and supralocal (regional, national, global) activism? We contrast “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) activism and environmental liberation and discuss the significance of local knowledge and scale, nature as an issue for activism, place attachment and its disruption, and place-based power inequalities. Environmental psychology contributions to established scholarship on environmental activism are proposed: the components of place attachment are conceptualized in novel ways and a continuous dweller and activist place attachment is elaborated.

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Aims The anti‐fracking movement in Bulgaria, 2011–2013, was a successful grassroots effort to influence national environmental policy. The study draws on social movements and community psychology scholarship to investigate the emergence, development, and implications of activist identities as an important force for the movement's success. Methods Within a qualitative design, data were collected from interviews with activists, observations of organizing events, movement documents, and media publications. Structured and open coding followed by qualitative analyses produced descriptions and explanations of the construction and use of identities in the movement. Results Four major identities emerged in social and discursive interactions among activists and between activists and contextual forces: Victims, Bulgarians, Nature‐protectors, and Citizens. The four identities were used interchangeably and afforded differential empowerment and opportunities for participation in policy‐making. Conclusion The emerging activist identities were processes and products of the complex relationships between agency and context. The study contributes in illuminating the links between policy context, empowerment, participation, and political action.

We analyzed the consumption of dairy products and association with the nutritional status of adults based on “Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, RLMS‐HSE” 1994‐2012. Dietary intake (24h recall) and anthropometric data were collected by trained interviewers in >135,000 subjects during observational period. Per capita consumption (PCC) of drinking milk (including milk from prepared meals like porridges, milk soups, etc.) was varying from year to year but did not change critically during the period. PCC of fermented dairies increased by 3 times, while curd/curd products and hard cheeses increased by 2 times and 1.4 time, respectively. Among fermented dairies, kefir increased from 10.9 to 25.6 g/day and yogurt increased from 0.9g to 8.6 g/day. Yogurt consumption decreased with age in adults of both genders with the minimum values in older adults (蠅 60 yo). Higher kefir consumption, on the contrary, was observed in this latter population. In general, yogurt, kefir or the sum of fermented dairies was associated with higher intake of calcium, vitamin B2 and protein. Anthropometric data showed that adult yogurt consumers had lower mean values of BMI (T‐test P<0,001) and lower prevalence of overweight/obesity (OR 0.76, 95% CI 0.68‐0.85, P<0,001) compared to non‐consumers. This was not observed in the group of kefir consumers.Our study showed that fermented dairies consumption is associated with higher nutrients intake. Results further suggested that yogurt consumption is associated with lower prevalence of overweight/obesity among adults.