Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the world. The animals are suited for the freezing temperatures and thick snow. Hundreds of ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a ...

Aaron Gulley is a Nigerian-born travel and adventure writer. He has covered the world from Bali to Namibia for Outside and writes a regular column for the magazine about cycling and bike culture. A ...

Reindeer herders in Siberia stumbled across the first ever completely intact remains of an ancient cave bear — including its internal organs and its nose. “Today this is the first and only find of its ...

According to the study’s results, deer spend more than nine months not in the tundra but rather in the Evenkiya forests KRASNOYARSK, November 1. /TASS/. During the course of a grant project, ...

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The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is not a place that gets much media coverage. This sub-division of Siberia — made up of flat, lake-pocked tundra — is the size of California, Texas, Montana and both ...

Covid has reached even the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic. So vaccination teams are following, and finding ways to inoculate nomadic herders. Indigenous Yamal reindeer herders waited their turn to ...

There is an old adage that ‘you are what you eat’, and in many ways, this is true. We all know that eating healthy – think ...