It has been called everything from the "gateway to the underworld" to a "tadpole-shaped gash" – and it's eating into the surrounding landscape "like a living thing". Officially known as the Batagay ...

Siberia is melting. Vast tracts of Russian tundra, frozen for tens of thousands of years are starting to thaw. Many experts say the process is taking place so fast, they can only attribute it to the ...

A raging blaze so big it can be seen from space has engulfed vast swathes of Russia. Wildfires in the Siberian countryside began late last month and have now burned 5million acres of fields and ...

Siberia is about more than gulags and cold weather. As the exhibition “Siberia in the Eyes of Russian Photographers” at the American University Museum shows, the expansive Russian region is incredibly ...

One vast hole appearing in Siberia's frozen ground is a head-scratcher; 20 of them exploding through more than 500 feet of permafrost is downright baffling. That's the puzzle scientists have been ...

Time now to leave the Caspian Sea behind and head north-east in the direction of Siberia. To most of us this region is probably best known for the famous railway that traverses it, and as the venue ...

Last July, Ian A. Frazier ’73 spoke to National Public Radio about his most recent nonfiction work, “Travels in Siberia.” When asked why he had ventured into the territory (five times in 16 years), ...

According to a reindeer herder of the Jamal Peninsula, on the morning of June 28, he heard a loud blast and a column of smoke rising from the ground. The explosion he heard created a crater with a ...

The remote and frosty landscape of Siberia looks like a tree's snow-covered roots or veins in a newly released photo taken from space. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A ...

The remote and frosty landscape of Siberia looks like a tree's snow-covered roots or veins in a newly released photo taken from space. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A ...