NEFUThe wholly-intact teeth of a prehistoric cave bear whose species went extinct about 20,000 years ago. The Siberian permafrost is known as a treasure trove of prehistoric artifacts where Ice ...

In Russia's Far North, in the Yamalo-Nenets region, authorities have been fighting an outbreak of the Siberian plague, which is called anthrax in the West. More than 2,000 reindeer have died ...

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Swells of Siberian tundra roll north toward the Arctic Ocean; a reindeer herd grazes on a distant crest. It’s mid-July, and the group of Nenets herders that Yuri leads are about halfway through ...

Later in the year, hunters load horses with elk, reindeer, and sable. The photographer’s family has named this mare Tuchka—Small Cloud in Russian. This story appears in the March 2018 issue of ...