ecology Siberia

Soot-coloured snowfall covers the ground in Siberia's second largest city.

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

There are only two places in Russia where Whooper Swans come for winter.

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

New research shows rare genetic lines could have been preserved in Siberia.

The weirdest winter for decades takes a cold turn but milder weather is on the way again.

Dmitry Medvedev has called for Russian regional officials to pay more attention to environmental groups, working in Siberia.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

The discovery of an ice-preserved female mammoth comes amid a debate on whether scientists should try to recreate the species using DNA.

An expedition to one of Eurasia's northernmost caves unlocks secrets that might help explain the extinction of mammoths.