CHICAGO -- As Russian forces invade his home country of Ukraine, Northwestern University professor Yohann Petrovsky-Shtern worries about his family back home. They have all taken shelter including his ...

History is generally chronicled from the rather parochial perspective of human beings. We are the ones recording it, and in keeping with our species’ characteristic narcissism, we tend to emphasize ...

The morning sun shines through a forest on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East. Russia has “three times as many trees as there are stars in our galaxy,” Sophie Pinkham writes. (Igor Dudkovskiy/AP) ...