City of 180,000 is just 26 km from ‘waking’ Avachinsky on Pacific’s ring of fire.

Amazing footage shows the bears just 150 metres from the nearest house as shooting is criticised - but does little to deter predators.

The animal got into a habit of visiting rubbish dumps on remote Novaya Zemlya, say researchers.

Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle.

Forests on the march thanks to global warming, says new research by Krasnoyarsk Science Centre.

Frantic efforts to save the wrong-turn birds from harsh cold.