Society’s president Sergei Shoigu - Russian defence minister - even hinted at possibility of cloning during annual meeting.

Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.

Hero staff of Blagoveschensk cardio centre had just cut open the patient’s chest when a major fire began.

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.