Eastern Russia is massive - bigger than most countries - yet almost nobody lives there. And while freezing temperatures are part of the story, the real reasons go much deeper. In this video, we’ll ...

Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater ...

A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

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If you’ve ever taken the time to look at a globe, you may have deduced that Russia is the largest country on our planet. Stretching across an enormous 6,601,665 square miles, the country’s size has ...