This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

It was reported earlier that an excess of phenol and oil products was found in the coastal zone near Khalaktyrsky beach, where a massive stranding of sea animals was seen on the shore ...

Naturalist, traveller, explorer, doctor, researcher of the Baikal lake, the Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, professor at the University ... they document the differences between animals of ...

There’s a moral panic in Russia and several former Soviet states about a craze in which teenagers and children dress up as animals and walk on all fours like their favourite animals. In one ...