Our planet faces a mounting challenge: it is awash in plastic pollution. Microplastics (MPs), those tiny plastic fragments less than 5 millimeters in size, are everywhere – in our water, soil, air, and even ice.
A scientist's position in the ranking is determined using a formula based on the h-index, number of publications, number of citations, and other scientometric indicators.
A total of approximately 50 people worked on Paramushir, including volcanologists, botanists, ornithologists, entomologists, hydrobiologists, geographers, historians, volunteers.
After completing a course on preparing biological specimens for examination using light and electron microscopy, P.A. Potapova organized a workshop at School No. 130 to introduce students to the microscopic crustaceans.
The widespread invasion of the catfish genus Pterygoplichthys is primarily due to their popularity in aquarium keeping, as some specimens escape from the aquarium trade or aquaculture and successfully reproduce in natural water ecosystems.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko assessed the infrastructure and learned about the priority research areas of the IEE RAS, and held a meeting on its development.
Rhino horns are a unique structure. They lack a bony core and, like hair, nails, and hooves, are a derivative of skin composed of keratin. The horn is formed from numerous keratin tubes (filaments) embedded in a keratin matrix.
Molecular genetic analysis showed that the discovered population is most closely related to the European strains and differs significantly from the North American strains.
The best thing a person can do when they meet a leveret in nature is to pass by. Its mother will definitely return and feed her child. If the animal is injured, only animal rehabilitation specialists can help it.
The Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) are accepting applications for the second joint competition of international scientific projects to conduct fundamental and exploratory scientific research by international research teams.
The Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia has launched an information digest, “Educational Harbor.” It briefly covers the main events in science and higher education in six CIS countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 14:00 in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) a meeting of the council 24.1.109.03 will be held, at which the dissertation for the academic degree of candidate of biological sciences Ilya Nikolaevich Tsvetkov will be defended on the topic: "Helminth fauna of the American mink, European polecat, pine marten, common otter of the Caspian-Baltic watershed within the boundaries of the Tver and Pskov regions".
The Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences is holding a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) on February 2–6, 2026, in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).
On Wednesday, April 9 at 14:00 in the large hall of the IEE RAS (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) an interlaboratory colloquium will be held dedicated to the presentation of the candidate's dissertation of Nikita Aleksandrovich Martynenko (Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology).