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The startling sight of the blood red Daldykan River is nothing new, starting from the 1990s.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

The swollen Amur River reached a depth of 910 cm near Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Sunday, with fears it could hit 940cm. 

Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.

The city of Chelyabinsk cleared up its broken glass and divers scoured a lake to find a meteorite which hit with the force of a nuclear bomb.

Meteorite inspires iconic new design for shopping and entertainment centre.

Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.

Russian army in battle to erect dikes to hold back the swirling Amur River as evacuations begin in low-lying areas.

Say that again? The Arctic on fire?