Batagai crater

After a month of warm, dry weather and wildfires, the huge crater nicknamed ‘Mouth of Hell’ is now under direct threat.

Expedition to the world’s biggest permafrost ‘crater’ in Yakutia seeks secret of taming antimicrobial resistance.

Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.

Scientists presented unique discovery made inside the Batagai crater in Yakutia.

Running water is one of the most soothing and relaxing sounds known to man, but here it signals the rapid thawing of ground frozen for thousands of years.

Locals hear 'booms from the underworld' in giant ravine but now scientists say it holds secrets of the planet's past.

Plan for surrogate mare to give birth and bring back to life long-gone species in Russia’s coldest region.

Project to be unveiled at 4th Eastern Economic Forum next month and likely to contain laboratories sunk into the permafrost.