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

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...

How billions of trees left their mark on an empire’s psyche – shaping ideological and literal battles up to the present day When Sophie Pinkham opens her fascinating book with the claim that “Russia ...

MOSCOW, 24 October (BelTA - TV BRICS) - The first forest-climate project in the Russian Arctic has been launched in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO). The initiative aims to develop carbon ...

When Russian scientists released a pair of orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild in a remote corner of Russia’s far east in 2014, they were trying to save a species. While the tigers, sometimes ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fires have scorched forests contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a Russian forestry official said on Wednesday, but it was unclear how dangerous the ...