Rural village life in Yakutia, the coldest region on Earth, is unique. The villages outside Yakutsk, Siberia, face extreme ...

An intact baby mammoth has been unearthed in the far reaches of Siberia, its remains frozen in time for an estimated 50,000 ...

YAKUTSK (dpa) – The first step into the Siberian cold is euphoric. The icy-fresh air shimmers with the glare of the Arctic sun, the frost prickles your face and snow crunches underfoot. Then comes the ...

MR. GEORGE KENNAN was an employee of the Russo-American Telegraph Company, “or, as it was more properly called, the ' Western Union Extension,’” which was organized in the summer of 1864 for the ...

MOSCOW, Russia — A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in Russia's extreme north. Russian media reported Wednesday that ...

A 30,000-year-old site in Arctic Siberia could hold secrets to America's ancestors. WASHINGTON -- A people who may have been ancestors of the first Americans lived in Arctic Siberia, enduring one of ...

TABAGA, Russia (dpa) – Did he murder, maim or rob? Pavel Nissen prefers not to say. “I don’t want to think about my past any more,” the thickset bearded young man murmurs. He looks awkwardly at the ...

Wildfires in Siberia could irreversibly affect permafrost in the region and lead to the growth of the Batagay megaslump—a huge scar in the landscape referred to by locals as the "Gateway to the ...