All public events cancelled, extra protection for children as they go to kindergarten and school.
Raging underground fires in minus 23C near Chita
Only nine out of 69 cormorants survive oil pollution
Rescuers seek to save Pelagic cormorants covered oil from tanker spill
Ecological 'disaster' after tanker spills oil onto Sakhalin shore
Pollution 'crisis' in Lake Baikal
Police arrest snow leopard 'poacher' in Altai region
Pink Siberia - another flamingo is lost after heading north instead of south
Rare tiger shot dead by hunter who claims he was 'attacked' by the predator which 'killed his dog'
Slaughter of unique seals living in Lake Baikal
Are Putin's tigers 'lost'... or simply roaming free of modern technology?
Flamingos take wrong turn - and fly to snowy Siberia
One of only 80 endangered Siberian leopards living in the wild is hit by a car and killed
Scandal of rare falcons being smuggled out of Russia 'as playthings of rich Arab sheikhs'
Rare Pallas cat is saved in village in TransBaikal
Police save smuggled Amur tiger cub in Western Siberia
Immediate public audit of a high risk waste storage in Russia is urged.
Ecologists from several countries lost battle to poachers who caught an endangered dark-feathered bird.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?
One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.
Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.