It’s mid-July, and the group of Nenets herders that Yuri leads are about halfway through an annual trek that takes them 400 miles north on the Yamal Peninsula to the Arctic coast—in normal ...

Winter in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Region) is long and lingering and summer is short and long-awaited. Sometimes, there is a lot of sunshine, sometimes, none at all - on a polar night ...

Regions such as Khanty-Mansi and Yamal-Nenets led this surge, fueled by oil field expansions—such as the Samotlor, one of the world's largest oil fields. By 2013, oil and gas extraction zones in ...