Siberia offers a tantalizing prize with fewer immediate risks. Its vast reserves of oil, gas, gold, diamonds, rare earth ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

Cave data shows the Arctic was permafrost-free when Earth was 4.5˚C warmer, hinting at what rising temperatures could bring.

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

Today in the history of astronomy, an asteroid flattens 830 square miles of Siberian forest.

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after being convicted of harming his followers' health and financial affairs ...

North Korea is set to treble the number of its troops fighting for Russia along the front lines with Ukraine, sending an ...