A court in Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula sentenced Vladimir Yefimov, the head of the local branch of the liberal ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is a land of superlatives. It is one of the most volcanologically active regions on Earth. It has the world's densest population of brown bears. Next to Yellowstone ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

A Russian man who survived 66 days adrift at sea on an inflatable boat has been charged with negligence over the deaths of ...

TASS/. An ash ejection up to 11 km high has been recorded at the Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka, with the plume spreading east of the volcano, the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 22. /TASS/. The eruption of the Bezymyanny volcano on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula began at 08:22 local time (23:22 Moscow time on Wednesday), a spokesman for the ...

South Korea is expected to endure a cold snap throughout the week, according to the weather forecast released on Sunday. The ...

MOSCOW--Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major eruptions could be on the way. The peninsula, which ...

Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was rescued more than two months after setting off on a trip with his brother and 15-year-old nephew, ...

Three trucks were built to take nine people on an expedition from Moscow some 9,942 miles eastward by road to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka peninsula, and it earned the ...

They are most common on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Each winter, many Steller's sea eagles migrate from their breeding grounds to Japan, and a few reach Korea or even farther afield. Other ...