A massive algae bloom has stained a Siberian glacier blood-red, and Russian scientists warn that the bloom will cause the ice to melt at a faster rate. Tomsk State University (TSU) scientists in ...

Chuya Highway R256 cuts through the heart of the Altai Mountains, following the curves of the Chuya River as it winds between ...

Deep in the Altai Mountains, where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet, Kazakh people have for centuries developed and nurtured a special bond with golden eagles. Arkalak, 12, right, with his ...

Journey through the Altai Mountains, a remote wilderness deep in Siberia. This footage captures towering snow-covered peaks, glacial rivers, and golden autumn forests spread across one of Russia’s ...

Most people are familiar with the historical Silk Road, but fewer people realize that the exchange of items, ideas, technology, and human genes through the mountain valleys of Central Asia started ...

The third Winter Games Around Altai Mountains was held from January 27 to 30 in Xinjiang's Altay City.

Russians living in Siberia's Altai Mountains make a living by cutting the antlers off Maral deers. The dried antlers are sold for more than $300 per kilogram to China and South Korea, where people ...

The expedition was a joint effort of the United States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard during the summer of 1912, to study sheep, ibex, and other large game in the ...

In Russia's remote Altai region, people are heading to the mountains in thick snow to gather riches that literally grow on trees: pine nuts. Russia is the world's largest supplier of pine nuts. For ...