All public events cancelled, extra protection for children as they go to kindergarten and school.
Children rescue flamingo that was heading for Saudi Arabia but ended up in Siberia instead
Two Syrians detained 'illegally trapping rare Saker Falcons' in TransBaikal region
Pallas's cats to get their own 'palace' in Siberian mountains
Arctic methane gas emission 'significantly increased since 2014' - major new research
Disturbing new pictures show the raging Siberian wildfires that (officially) do not exist
People in Bratsk petition Kremlin over pollution from forest fires
Oil pipes threatened by forest fires amid disputes over the scale of destruction
Siberian river has blushed red before, satellite images prove
Rare bowhead whale caught by villagers in Chukotka
Red Alert as river turns 'puce from pollution' in Arctic
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.