Russian scientists have restored the steppe of Kulikovo – just as it was when the country's seminal battle was fought in 1380.

In the public mind, Russian forests have always been an unlimited resource. Not any longer.

On the language of fall and a changing climate.

In this issue's language learning page, we consider Russian songs about trees.

Lakes vanish, free food appears, and a priest speaks to the dead.

This week, Russians are caught in the act by means of butter, watermelon, and a controversial color

14 members of Russia’s flora and fauna community that should be known to any self-respecting Russophile.

The Caucasus had a fast-growing plant that the Soviets wanted to plant up north to use for animal feed. What could possibly go wrong?

A shortage of clean drinking water threatens to become the main ecological problem of our time.

For several months, there has been a steady trickle of news reports from Shiyes, a nondescript railway station nestled amid forests and lakes not far from Syktyvkar, that sound as if they are coming from a war zone.

The features in this issue have something in common. And it's not necessarily what you might expect.

Chernobyl, the HBO miniseries, is many things: a disaster movie, a meditation on power, a warning against secrecy, a thriller – a race against time.