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 ...

ULAN-UDE, May 28 (Itar-Tass) —— The areas of burning forests in Siberia decreased more than 30 times over the weekend. Three of the eight fires were extinguished on Sunday. The rest five are burning ...

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 ...

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 ...