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An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the Arctic Circle, Aug, 16, 2005. A new report finds permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever before.

Critical permafrost research in Russia disrupted by war in Ukraine

Environment

Most of the world’s permafrost lies in Russia. Critical research looks at how melting permafrost contributes to global warming. But sanctions against Russia this year have disrupted field work and threatened collaborations among scientists.

Smoke rises from wildfires near Berezovka River in Russia

A heat wave in Siberia signals dangerous Arctic warming

Chris Tara-Browne was a coffee magnate in Siberia. Now, he's starting over again in California. His new venture, CaféUnity, is going in in what was a hot dog stand in Rohnert Park.

Siberia’s coffee king is setting up shop back home in California

Business
Natalia Pinus decided to run for the Novosibirsk City Council in Siberia. And she decided to run as an independent.

This woman demonstrated that even in Russia all politics is local

Global Politics
A Nepalese army personnel stands in front of a collapsed temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal a day after the April 25 earthquake rocked the country. The quake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing thousands and triggering a deadly avalanche on M

Earthquakes create as well as destroy

Environment
Police detain environmental activist Evgenia Chirikova during an opposition rally in Moscow in 2012. Chirikova's efforts to save a protected forest ultimately made her a leading critic of the Russian government. Now after years of pressure from the govern

She opposed Putin. They tried to take away her kids.

Environment

One of Russia’s best-known environmental activists has joined the parade of Putin opponents who have left the country. But activist Evgenia Chirikova says she’ll continue her work from across the border in Estonia.

The MV Akademik Shokalskiy got caught in encroaching ice off Antarctica in late December of 2013. The Russian ship's 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby icebreaker more than a week later.

In looking back at this year’s environmental news there’s a lot of doom and gloom — but not entirely

Environment

The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson ticks off his top stories of 2014, featuring an ice-bound ship, holes in the tundra and Barack Obama.

This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l

Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia

Environment

The discovery of two giant holes in the ground in far northern Russia is raising all kinds of speculation about their origin. No one yet knows for sure how they were formed, but a leading scientist is pointing to an ever-more usual suspect—climate change.

This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l

Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia

Environment

The discovery of two giant holes in the ground in far northern Russia is raising all kinds of speculation about their origin. No one yet knows for sure how they were formed, but a leading scientist is pointing to an ever-more usual suspect—climate change.

The U2 spy plane, the road to Lake Baikal, and the presidential trip to Russia that never happened

Environment

The imminent demise of the American U-2 spy plane reminded The World’s environment editor Peter Thomson of an odd story linking the plane with one of his favorite places, Siberia’s Lake Baikal.