In the public mind, Russian forests have always been an unlimited resource. Not any longer.

On the language of fall and a changing climate.

In this issue's language learning page, we consider Russian songs about trees.

Lakes vanish, free food appears, and a priest speaks to the dead.

This week, Russians are caught in the act by means of butter, watermelon, and a controversial color

14 members of Russia’s flora and fauna community that should be known to any self-respecting Russophile.

The Caucasus had a fast-growing plant that the Soviets wanted to plant up north to use for animal feed. What could possibly go wrong?

A shortage of clean drinking water threatens to become the main ecological problem of our time.

For several months, there has been a steady trickle of news reports from Shiyes, a nondescript railway station nestled amid forests and lakes not far from Syktyvkar, that sound as if they are coming from a war zone.

The features in this issue have something in common. And it's not necessarily what you might expect.

Chernobyl, the HBO miniseries, is many things: a disaster movie, a meditation on power, a warning against secrecy, a thriller – a race against time.

On June 21, 1900, an intrepid explorer set off to find a mysterious Arctic island. He was never to be seen again.