Sergei Shoigu, Governor of Moscow Oblast, told the President of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) that the Moscow Oblast government would approve a plan next week to mobilise resources to address a bark beetle infestation in the area’s forests.
2 October 2012
RIA-Novosti
2012
Cockroaches and geckos use their body as a pendulum to execute a kind of flip when jumping from one branch of the tree to its opposite side, which helps them to become “invisible” and escape from predators, biologists wrote in an article published in PLoS One.
7 June 2012
RIA-Novosti
2012
Biologists reported in article in the journal Science that male fruit flies who attempted to mate with females, but who failed due to a lack of receptivity on the part of the “ladies”, switched to an alcoholic “diet”.
16 March 2012
RIA-Novosti
http://eco.ria.ru/ecocartoon/20120316/597035970.html
Editor’s Note:
I love Sergei Yolkin’s cartoons because they’re wry (and often satiric) without being bitter or nasty. He’s my favourite editorial cartoonist… he deserves to be better known…
BMD
2012
European and American scientists found that malaria-bearing mosquitoes detect their most attractive victims from the smell of bacterial microflora on the victim’s skin. The isolation and artificial production of these volatile substances would create an effective trap for these insects, according to an article published in PLoS ONE.
16 January 2012
RIA-Novosti
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