Baby Mammoth Frozen In Time
Meet Lyuba, the world's best-preserved baby mammoth. Discovered in 2007 by a reindeer herder in the Siberian permafrost of the remote Yamal Penins...
Meet Lyuba, the world's best-preserved baby mammoth. Discovered in 2007 by a reindeer herder in the Siberian permafrost of the remote Yamal Penins...
Lawrence Wittner | Posted 04.02.2012
Is it possible to cope with the immense dangers posed by the rapid consumption of the world's resources? In The Race for What's Left, Michael Klare claims that it is -- but only through a significant change in behavior.
Reuters | Posted 04.02.2012
(Reuters) - A passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in Siberia on Monday, killing 31 people and putting the spotlight on Russia'...
Salem Patch | Posted 02.23.2012
Bridget Ayers is an unassuming 13-year-old who loves the Beatles and classic rock and, like many others her age, she still has the occasional off-day ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 02.13.2012
It's not exactly the boy who cried wolf - it might be more correct to call it the man who hollered woolly mammoth. It appears that a story last wee...
Posted 02.09.2012
A woolly mammoth has reportedly been seen and videotaped in Siberia, offering irrefutable proof that the giant hairy prehistoric elephants -- believed...
The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.24.2012
How long have we been raising dogs? According to new research, long enough that we ought to call them 'caveman's best friend.' A 33,000 year-old do...
Posted 12.23.2011
The globetrotting provocateurs at Vice have just released one of their weirdest travel series yet: A three-part documentary hunt for "Jesus of Siberia...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 11.22.2011
A group of international scientists made headlines last month after suggesting they were "95 percent" certain they'd found evidence that the elusive Y...
Sandra Ingerman | Posted 01.21.2012
Many people during this time of year buy Christmas trees. During our solstice celebration this year I would suggest a new way to bring in this holiday season.
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson | Posted 01.11.2012
An entire group of Russian tourists asked if they too could take my picture! I was a novelty and it was 2010!
HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 12.05.2011
Snowmen aren't just playthings children build in wintertime. Some say they're living beings, and an international group of scientists are about to go ...
AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 10.24.2011
MOSCOW (AP) -- North Korea is ready to impose a moratorium on nuclear missile tests if international talks on its nuclear program resume, a spokesman ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 10.24.2011
MOSCOW (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's armored train arrived Tuesday in an eastern Siberian city for a summit with Russian President Dmitry...
Posted 06.18.2011
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has regularly sought to portray himself as his nation's man of action, manning fighter jets, going barechested o...
Posted 05.25.2011
Officials in west Siberia plan to launch a new scientific institute dedicated to studying yetis after a spate of reported sightings in remote areas. ...
Anisha Lakhani | Posted 05.25.2011
Luxuries are the well-earned fruits of her dedication and keen eye for precision. She's the woman fellow Russian Ayn Rand idealized in her novels.
Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011
Reindeer are dying in large numbers all across the Arctic. If the actions of the House Rhetoricians are allowed to play out this year, Rudolph won't be here much longer to carry Santa around the globe.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
With The Way Back, Peter Weir jumps the tracks, making a movie with amazing scope but little drama. The level of tension in the film is like a toothache -- constant, gnawing but not particularly enjoyable.
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
Russia's military has been praised for its chic uniforms, the creation of one of the nation's most celebrated designers. But as many of the world's fa...
dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011
MANHATTAN -- Siberia, the notorious hangout favored by boozy journalists that closed in 2007, is applying for a liquor license renewal, fueling hopes ...
USA Today | Dan Vergano | Posted 05.25.2011
Siberia's Denisova cave held the pinky bone of an unknown early human species, a genetics team reported in March. The Naturejournal study, led by Joha...
Dr. Stefan Waydenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
My life was hard labor in a Siberian logging camp, working all year round, maintaining an ice road for the transport of timber in subzero temperatures.
Posted 05.25.2011
A fantastic LA Times article details the recent proliferation of woolly mammoth bones in Siberia. As permafrost in the region thaws, entire villages ...
J. Lee Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011
The Buryats, a formerly nomadic people of Mongol origin with strong ties to Buddhism and shamanism, now fear a loss of their unique culture and the reversal of recent economic gains.
The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.10.2012