Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of giant exploding craters spotted in western Siberia, known to blast soil and ice hundreds of feet into the air. These craters, known as giant gas ...

Rivers and lakes at high latitudes are considered to be major sources for greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, but these losses are poorly constrained. In a study published in Nature ...

The Russian gas industry occupies a major operational sector of the country's fuel and energy industry as well as the national economy. In 2003, Russian gas production amounted to 600 billion cu m ...

The world’s largest deposit of iron ore is the Bakchar deposit located in Western Siberia, Russia. Its proven reserves are over 28 billion tons. Scientists search for an answer to a global question: ...

Russian conglomerate PJSC Sibur Holding, Moscow, has completed a project to expand NGL fractionation capacity by 1.4 million tonnes/year at its Tobolsk (formerly Tobolsk-Neftekhim) processing site in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest fortified site in a remote region of Siberia, according to a study. A team of researchers investigated a western Siberia site ...

Russia's population has been falling for 16 straight years. The population decline is most dramatic in rural Russia, where villages have withered away from poverty and neglect. But a region in Western ...

Permafrost soils store large quantities of frozen carbon and play an important role in regulating Earth's climate. Researchers now show that river greenhouse gas emissions rise high in areas where ...