‘Houses jumped like they were on a trampoline’, said one of the terrified residents.
Ultimate love as hero mother Gerda shows off her polar bear cubs in Novosibirsk Zoo
A fan of online media? A brown bear steals and tears a newspaper from rangers' hut
Air China Boeing 777 makes emergency landing in Russia's easternmost town
Siberian energy company's new takeover. SUEK shows 25 billion roubles profit for 2011
Luna the panther was rescued from a travelling zoo when its mother refused to feed the cub.
Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.
Soul-stirring images of eruption on the Klyuchevskaya Sopka caught by extreme travellers at altitude of 2,850 metres (9,350 ft).
Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.
The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.
Fur or other natural fabric garments protect Oymyakon cattle from getting frostbitten at -50C.