Built just five years ago, western sanctions over Ukraine stop international cooperation at climate change research facility in Arctic.

New find at Zeleny Yar necropolis, which shows links to Persia, to be examined within weeks. 

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

230 wildfires rage in Russia’s coldest republic of Yakutia, with state of emergency declared in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions.

Warning of methane blasts in Kara Sea adjacent to Yamal craters caused by gas eruptions associated with melting permafrost due to global warming.

Academics restart work to unlock secrets of mystery medieval civilization with links to Persia on edge of the Siberian Arctic.

Russia marks Orthodox Christmas Day on 7 January according to the Julian calendar (and for some this is also a time for fortune telling).

After 1,907 kilometre odyssey, crossbreed is back home to his day job keeping polar bears at bay in remote weather station. 

Scientists say there is growing evidence that rising temperatures were catalyst for massive unexplained holes in ground.

The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.