Journalists of The Moscow Times talked to our employee Alexei Kotov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about why he signed the report “Warning scientists of the world about the climate emergency”. And about why only 4 Russian scientists did this. In total, the report was signed by 11 thousand scientists from around the world. It is published in the British scientific journal BioScience in the Opinions section. Follow the link to read the material in English.

IPEE RAS specialists Dmitry Glazov, Olga Shpak, Natalia Shumeyko, Svetlana Artemyeva, Olga Titova, Ilya Meshchersky and Maria Solovyeva will participate in the International Marine Mammal Conference in Barcelona on December 9-12, 2019, along with more than 2500 scientists, students and researchers who have dedicated their lives to study and conservation of marine animals. The main theme of this year's conference is Together for Science and Conservation. A large number of reports are devoted to climate change, ocean pollution and the reduction in the number of populations and species of marine mammals. The norm for modern researchers has been the use of advanced technologies - drones, underwater robots, autonomous sonar equipment, etc. The conference is attended by over 2500 people from 95 countries who will present 627 oral presentations and 1077 poster presentations. A large delegation of colleagues from various institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, universities, and environmental organizations is participating as well. Russian students take an active part and even schoolchildren from one of the Moscow schools presented their poster at the conference. In addition to plenary lectures, several sections, round tables, and meetings are held daily in parallel. This year a format of short 5-minute reports, which present advanced research in a concise form, is widely used.