With more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season, more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga has ...

VERKHNECHONSK, Russia (Reuters) - Oil was discovered in 1978 deep under the forest floor in this corner of Eastern Siberia, but the challenges of drilling here were created hundreds of millions of ...

Beginning 8,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the forests of northern Russia built some of the world’s earliest fortified settlements This aerial photograph shows the western Siberian taiga ...

MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu are spending the weekend in a Siberian region, where they are riding an off-road vehicle and are walking ...

A new study finds that, contrary to previous beliefs, large amounts of aerosol particles can form over vast areas of the West Siberian taiga in the spring. When temperatures rise, this can have a ...

The joint special tactical exercise of special operations forces is running on June 8-11 YEKATERINBURG, June 10. /TASS/. Special operations forces of Russia’s Central Military District and Uzbekistan ...

The Siberian flying squirrel is considered an umbrella and indicator species. This means that protecting it could also benefit a host of other forest-dependent wildlife. The Siberian flying squirrel ...