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 ...

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

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

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

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.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

A religious sect leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian ...