Drivers and passengers escaped their sinking lorries but oil is leaking into the world’s 11th longest river, prompting a local state of emergency.

Tragedy as mother and 9 year old girl cannot escape after car sank.

Colin Madsen, 25, enjoyed night-walking in Siberia but never came back after going out on Sunday.

Pro-Kremlin eco-groups echo Greenpeace concerns by highlighting burning of forests which do not appear in government reports.

Most fires will not be extinguished, with major cities polluted by fumes.

Beauty parlour owner Yulia Kiseleva, 27, was drunk as she drove her Mercedes-Benz into Toyota Highlander at 160 kph.

Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.

Running for its life after its mother was killed, two-month-old bear is rescued after stumbling into officers.

Hopes fade of finding 13 people, six weeks after Tyva Avia aircraft went missing in remote and mountainous region.

Billionaire tycoon aims to use Siberia’s hydropower to fuel legion of data centres cheaper than anywhere else in Russia.