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A female-only herd of European bison in war-torn Ukraine is looking for mates

After all male bison in Zalissia National Nature disappeared during Russian invasion, WWF launches campaign to translocate bull bison and …

Russia has turned the Dnipro into a major weapon of war: Paul Josephson

Down To Earth speaks to specialist in Soviet and Russian history about the impact of two years of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Dnipro river

Why is a wisent herd in Ukraine on the brink of extinction? Can matchmaking save them?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has decimated the population of male wisent in the Zalissia National Nature Park; translocating two …

8 million women and girls require urgent humanitarian aid in Ukraine amid 2 years of conflict

Gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking, has surged: UN Women

Latest parliamentary win by Putin’s United Russia has been years in the manufacturing

The election coincides with a period of economic stagnation, high household inflation, the ongoing coronavirus crisis and environmental disasters

What does the Russia oil spill mean for permafrost

The leak, in the Ambarnaya river, has put local ecology at risk, forcing the Russian government to impose an emergency in the area

Europe beats Russian winter; EU upgrades continent’s growth outlook despite energy crisis

The upward revision is despite an anticipated winter slump amid Russia’s war on Ukraine coupled with a looming energy crisis

Only a piglet in Russia’s war on patents

Post-Ukraine, Russia has held back from appropriating intellectual property despite a law to punish unfriendly countries

A gene that follows its own drum-beat

A team of Russian scientists have found in mice a gene, which, unlike others, decides when to express itself

Quarter-billion people face extreme poverty in 2022 as the rich get richer: Oxfam

Inflation driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine a major factors behind financial crisis

Ukraine: what will end the war? Here’s what research says

What can trigger a war? Which of those factors are relevant in the current scenario?

Cellular phones and shanties

Post-communist Siberia has hardly any paved streets, but is brimming with cellular phones and $40,000 jeeps

From Russia with love

Exchange of technology between Russia and the West is opening up new horizons in the aerospace industry

A Russian roulette

The main source of the illegal trade in ozone-gobbling chemicals, the mafia in Russia is now in the line of fire

Countdown to self-reliance

Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites

A Cash-hungry Russia eyes its Siberian coniferous forests

The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.

Disaster down the pipe

A major pipeline explosion exposes the danger posed by Russia's 140,000 km-long high pressure gaslines