Farmers in Russia’s southern Saratov region have appealed directly to President Vladimir Putin for assistance in dealing with ...

Air quality in some parts of the United States is worsening as smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada travels south, pushed ...

The peace talks between Russia and the U.S. in Saudi Arabia beginning Monday could see Moscow offer Washington access to rare earth materials. Newsweek's map below illustrates Russia's rare earth ...

Russia has claimed to have captured another key Ukrainian town as it looks to consolidate gains ahead of potential peace talks pushed by Donald Trump. After months of heavy fighting, Russian ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Over the past decade, China and Russia have deepened their diplomatic relationship despite a long and complicated history marked by both ...

My colleague Charlotte Walshaw from the University of Edinburgh was the lead scientist of the recent research mapping vegetation in Antarctica. She points out that these new maps provide key ...

I’m part of a group of scientists who have just combined satellite data with field measurements to produce the first map of green vegetation across the whole Antarctic continent. We detected 44. ...

The result: Map grids that show vegetation patterns more accurately than previous methods. Accurate information about vegetation is particularly important in Nevada, where the federal government owns ...

Russia borders Poland and Lithuania via the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea, its westernmost region that is detached from mainland Russia. It also shares a maritime border with Japan ...

And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra? Almost always, those maps were based on the climate ... relationship between climate and types of vegetation. Around 1900, he proposed the ...

The map touches on multiple territorial disputes, among them Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island, which sits at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur rivers that separate Russia and China. The island is ...