Renowned scientist says temperatures could 'rise twice faster' in Yakutia than the rest of the world.
One of only 500 of the largest cats in the world left in the Siberian wild is gunned down in Kharbarovsk region.
The government of the Sakha republic in Siberia has allocated extra cash to slaughtering wolves threatening remote reindeer villages.
The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.