Health authorities in Russia`s Far East warned local residents on Friday against uncontrolled consumption of iodine-rich substances among fears of radiation fallout from Japan`s quake-hit nuclear power plant.
Ecologists in Russia`s Far Eastern Primorye Territory will count endangered Amur leopards inhabiting the region, Sergei Aramilev of WWF`s Russian branch said on Monday.
The Russian government will develop by 2012 a state program for prospecting and extracting mineral resources on Russia`s Arctic shelf, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said.
A shark, linked to at least three of the five attacks on humans in the Red Sea last week, is still on the loose, Egypt`s Ahram Online portal said on Friday.
Flu vaccination campaign in Russia successfully continues in Russia both at the expense of the federal budget and private employers, the country`s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said.
Haiti`s cholera outbreak has spread to the capital Port-au-Prince, putting the lives of millions of homeless people at risk.
About 40% of Russians, or almost 57 million people, drink to excess, a Health Ministry top specialist told Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Friday.
Around 1,500 dead birds have been found on Ukraine`s Bolshoi Dzendzik Island near the Berdyansk spit on the Azov Sea, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said on Saturday.
A flu vaccination campaign has kicked off in Russia, the country`s chief sanitary doctor said.
The birds of prey are bred in an incubator in the south-west of the United Kingdom. Hatching falcon chicks and training them to hunt allow preserving their population in the wild. It is part of a breeding program developed by the Wildlife Consultants International.
Russia and China on Sunday signed an agreement for setting up trans-border wildlife reserve to save endangered populations of Siberian tigers and Amur leopards.
The number of hotspots, visible in infrared light and possibly indicating wildfires, grew from 121 to 131 on Sunday, the fires.kosmosnimki.ru website receiving data from two NASA satellites said.
The Russian consumer rights watchdog may ban U.S. poultry imports after half a billion U.S. eggs were recalled last week amid a salmonella outbreak, the service`s chief said on Monday.
Russian tobacco producers will introduce warning messages on cigarette packs on Saturday to enhance public awareness of smoking-related mortality threats.
An outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease at a swine farm in southern Russia has resulted in the destruction of 204 pigs, the regional emergency ministry press service said on Thursday.
Polar bear hunting, with an annual quota of 29 animals per year, may begin on Russia`s Chukchi Peninsula next year.
A rare North Pacific right whale has been spotted off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia`s Far East for the first time, a local environmental official has said.
The swine flu pandemic, which claimed over 18,000 lives worldwide, remains a threat for Russia, but experts believe that Russia`s response to the deadly virus was effective.
The use of huge quantities of chemical dispersant to break up an oil spill from a BP drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico could seriously endanger local wildlife, WWF Russia`s Oil and Gas Environmental Policy Officer said.
Global warming, which altered European winds, was partially to blame for flight disruptions in Europe caused by an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano, the New Scientist has said.
Rates of extinction are said to be so high, that some have equated the crisis to the challenge posed by climate change. But is it really that dramatic? DW spoke to Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Program.
Michel Rozanakoto`s farm lies on the edge of the Mantadia National Park. Across the boundary marking out his land, the thick forest canopy is home to scores of species of lemur, exotic frogs and plants found only in Madagascar.
DNA from a 40-thousand-year-old bone found in a Siberian cave is believed to belong to a previously unknown hominin. The "Hominin-X" joins Neanderthals as a now-extinct evolutionary competitor of modern human.
More and more young people prefer not to have children out of principle - simply because they do not need them.