Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

The global lockdown to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic health risks has altered human interactions with nature. Here, we report immediate impacts of changes in human activities on wildlife and environmental threats during the early lockdown months of 2020, based on 877 qualitative reports and 332 quantitative assessments from 89 different studies. Hundreds of reports of unusual species observations from around the world suggest that animals quickly responded to the reductions in human presence.

Case of highly prevalent papilloma-like skin lesions in whitespotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis) in Kamchatka (Russia).

In October 2014, a case of mass skin lesions was reported in whitespotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis) caught in the Nalycheva River on the Kamchatka peninsula (Russia). The proportion of affected fish was approximately 50% of the catch. Lesions of varying severity were noted from small tubercles to large single and confluent formations and ulcers.

First report of bacterial kidney disease in coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch in Russia.

This paper describes the first case of bacterial kidney disease (BKD) to be identified in coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch in Russia. The fish in question was caught in Lake Bolshoi Vilyui on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The diseased fish had foci of granulomatous inflammation in the kidneys.

[The wavelet analysis at heliobiological connections].

The Wavelet analysis of the time series of the number of insults per day and the variations of heliogeophysical indices was carried out. The patterns of Wavelet coefficients for both processes show a complex nonstationary behavior and the presence of periodic and acyclic constituents on different scales. During heliogeophysipal disturbances, the energy contribution to the processes increases more than threefold compared with the mean value on scales from three to five days.

[Effects of helio-geomagnetic disturbances on the human hemorheological characteristics].

Effects of geomagnetic disturbances on the rheological characteristics of blood and the homeostasis system were studies in 62 essentially healthy men. Rheological blood parameters, i.e.