Environmentalists call for World Bank to halt funding for projects that could alter flow of rivers leading into lake with water nearing critical low.

'Spy plane' was monitoring Siberia under Open Skies treaty aimed at reducing tension after Cold War.

Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.

The Kremlin's 'Mr Siberia' Viktor Tolokonsky tells 'Sphere of Influence' business magazine what our vast region means to him.

Is increased tourism, or a normal natural cycle, to blame for the rapid growth of spirogyra to 50% of the coastline?

From frost-resistant woolly pigs to sheep that look like goats and horses that love playing the snow, there are lots of surprises across the taiga.

Global warming spells doom for boreal forests with potentially dramatic implications for carbon release in dark taiga.