Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional ... a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both on a map and in the periodic table: dubnium, element number ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north. The project was a grand failure – but 50 years on ...

If Russia pursues the plan, the global ecological repercussions are bound to loom large. In the 1980s, western scientists feared that reducing the flows of north-flowing Siberian rivers would ...

Here's a map showing the region and the focus is ... China-North Korea borders meet and then the Tumen becomes a Russia-NK river some ten miles before the Pacific coast. In other words, China ...