To understand why forests sit so close to the heart of Russian identity, it helps to start with scale. The country stretches ...

Sophie Pinkham’s book The Oak and the Larch gives a new perspective on Russia’s history – but she pulls her punches on its ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

The ash-leaved maple, like the Sosnovsky hogweed, can receive the official status of harmful plants for Russian forests and be subject to mandatory destruction. This was confirmed on February 5 by a ...

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” traces how Russian history and literature have shaped – and been shaped by – its deep forests.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A satellite view of the rapidly spreading wildfires in the Siberian republic of Buryatia, located in the Russian Far East near ...

(CNN) — Severe wildfires raging in a Siberian region of Russia have engulfed more than 600,000 hectares of forest, local authorities have warned. In the Eastern Siberian territory of Zabaykalsky Krai, ...