The Afar Triangle is a unique tectonic formation where the Red Sea Rift, the East African Rift Valley and the Aden Range intersect.

In early December, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco and Taras Sipko, members of the IEE RAS, together with the Expedition-Tour company and the financial support of Igor Dontsov, completed the next stage of the expedition to study the behavioral ecology of the wolf and ungulates of Kolyma.

The tradition of studying the wolf in the Soviet Union and Russia has deep roots and its own history. In the 70-90s of the last century, a group of wolf cub specialists actively worked in the country, which then turned into the Commission on Large Predators at the Theriological Society.

Engineering nanomaterials are widely used in various fields of human activity. Thus, silver-based nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, agriculture, and cosmetics.

The venoms of predatory marine molluscs of the genus Conus are being studied intensively due to the biomedical applications of conotoxins, the neuropeptides they contain.

The Russian Science Foundation has summarized the results of the competition for projects of small individual scientific groups in 2022.

The purpose of the trip to the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technology Center (Tropical Center) was to assess the opportunities and resources that IEE RAS has in Vietnam, as well as to determine what projects can be implemented there.

No global biodiversity studies are possible without knowledge of the ranges of biological species.

The Far East of the Russian Federation, the Korean Peninsula, and the adjacent regions of China and Japan are a zone of mixing of the southern ("tropical") and northern ("boreal") faunas.

All-Russian project of the Theriological Society at the RAS "Mammals of Russia" was shortlisted for the All-Russian Prize "For Loyalty to Science" in the "Environmental Education" nomination.

The Seventh Organizing Committee for the conservation of the snow leopard and the ecosystems in which it lives was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

On November 6, employees of the IEE RAS gave lectures for the guests of the Golden Turtle festival, which took place in the New Tretyakov Gallery from October 15 to November 20.

A little more than three months have passed since the release of three leopards into the nature of Ossetia.

DNA sequence data are widely used in phylogenetic studies and for establishing species boundaries.

Russian scientists have discovered a new species of daphnia in mountain lakes and swamps on the Japanese island of Honshu.

Mongolia Comprehensive Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences has been working at our Institute.

As part of the All-Russian Festival NAUKA 0+ in Nizhny Novgorod on November 2, 2022, Elizaveta Dmitrievna Varakina conducted a master class "Water fleas (Crustacea: Cladocera) in the microscope lens".

In October Djibouti hosted the International Conference "Climate Change and Research: Towards Adaptation and Sustainable Development".