News articles tagged with 'Russian'
Russia tiger habitat gets a boost with protection of key tree species
— 30 Jul 2010 09:58 | EnvironmentWorld Tiger Day - the Russian government has introduced measures to protect the Korean pine, a key species found in Amur tiger habitat in the Russian Far East…
Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling in some areas
— 30 Jul 2010 09:40 | EnvironmentParts of the Arctic have cooled clearly over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990 also there. This is the finding of a summer temperature reconstruction…
Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans
— 14 Jul 2010 11:13 | HealthDostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners…
Oil majors ignore pleas to help protect most endangered whales
— 20 Apr 2009 10:23 | EnvironmentBP and Exxon continue to ignore requests to join consultations with an international scientific panel to work to protect the world's most endangered whales, threatened by oil and gas…
Putin petitioned over Siberian power station
— 12 Feb 2009 11:30 | EnvironmentA petition jointly organised by WWF-Russia and signed by more than 8,000 people was handed in to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week against the construction of a hydro-electric…
Trouble in the pipeline for grey whales
— 14 Oct 2008 11:40 | EnvironmentThe fate of the world's few remaining Western grey whales now rests on the outcome of appeals to Russian authorities and courts following the refusal of an oil consortium to consider…
Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory
— 19 Jul 2008 18:14 | EnvironmentThe Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses…
Program discourages HIV transmission in Russia, researchers say
— 15 Jul 2008 13:26 | HealthResearchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Centre (BMC) found that sexual behaviour counselling during drug addiction treatment should be considered…
Russian scientists and ESRF strengthen cooperation
— 14 Jun 2008 12:58 | PhysicsThe Kurchatov Institute in Moscow (Russia) and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble (France) have made a step towards a closer collaboration between the scientific…
Finnish children have more type 1 diabetes and allergic symptoms
— 30 May 2008 20:26 | HealthHigh living standards and the life style connected to them seem to promote the development of autoimmune diseases and allergic symptoms. This has lead to the assumption that the immune…