Bezymianny in Kamchatka, one of the many volcanoes in eastern Russia that will no longer be monitored by KVERT. In some bad news for volcano watchers (and the general public, too), Russia has decided ...

This is island hopping, but not as you know it. Russia's Far East: an epic, paradoxical wilderness of domineering ... Kamchatka, like many places in Russia’s Far East, is a land of extremes.

Forsaken island. There are about 15,000 Aleuts in the world today, the overwhelming majority of whom live in Alaska. In Russia, only 300 Aleuts remain, making them one of the smallest indigenous ...

Klyuchevskoy, a stratovolcano located in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula, is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward the Far East.

An earthquake measuring at 6.6 magnitude struck near the Aleutian archipelago off the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska and east of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, seismologists say.

Russia’s defense ministry said Monday it has deployed mobile coastal defense missile systems on a northern Kuril island, part of a strategically located chain of islands that stretch between ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 10. An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 has occurred on the eastern coast of Kamchatka Island in the Pacific Ocean, the regional branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the ...

In 2019, Julia Phillips published a celebrated novel called “Disappearing Earth,” set on a remote Russian peninsula called Kamchatka. It’s not a place many Western readers were likely to ...

A submersible photographed the Ametist, lost Feb. 11, 2011, with 23 crew members aboard, on May 11, lying at the bottom of the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of Kamchatka Island.

Bezymianny in Kamchatka, one of the many volcanoes in eastern Russia that will no longer be monitored by KVERT. In some bad news for volcano watchers (and the general public, too), Russia has ...

Item 1 of 3 A view shows a military vehicle of the Bastion coastal missile system that went on duty on the Kuril island of Paramushir, Russia, which is one of the islands claimed by Japan and also ...