This week's Odder News features reckless youths, especially unfortunate COVID infections, and new recommendations for surviving the Russian cold.

Pack your bikinis and speedos: it's time for Russian winter!

Our intrepid Far Eastern explorer gets it into his head to trek through uninhabited wilds in order to ascend his region’s tallest peak. Not all goes to plan.

Russian scientists are researching the cause of a massive die-off of marine life off the coast of Kamchatka in October.

Russia has everything, including Shrek's house.

This week, we've got brand-new guns, poachers from an unlikely place, and the frozen north gets an internet connection.

This week, Putin gets a cool new birthday present; an official broadcasts his workout regimen; and strange sediment puzzles scientists.

A recent study finds that Siberia's air quality may be worse than you'd think.

This beautiful film from YETI on an enviro-tourism effort to save Steelhead in Kamchatka is our video of the week.

When environmentalists sounded the alarm this time about a spill of diesel fuel from a power station reserve tank near Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, the government response was uncharacteristically serious.

News, quotes and tidbits from around Russia.

Half a century ago, the profession of geologist was both popular and revered in Russia, shrouded in a halo of romance and adventure. We see what it is like today, first-hand.