The event in Siberia, caused by asteroid C0WEPC5, highlighted the effectiveness of modern space monitoring in detecting and tracking near-Earth objects.
Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...
Outside, seven more of the teepee-like tents cluster in a semicircle. Swells of Siberian tundra roll north toward the Arctic Ocean; a reindeer herd grazes on a distant crest. It’s mid-July ...
It turned out that they fly from the subarctic tundra along Yakutia's Rivers Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma, the middle Aldan, crossing the Amur Region into China. Almost 90% of the Siberian crane ...
She was a pioneer of anthropology in Europe and the first lecturer of the subject in Oxford. She rode across the Siberian tundra in a dog sledge to learn the cultures of unknown tribes. Maria ...