Global warming spells doom for boreal forests with potentially dramatic implications for carbon release in dark taiga.
A quarter of all Russian forests, 89% of stocks in Sakha Republic, could be left to burn, even though they are essential to fight global warming.
Pictures show how drivers face deadly threat from summer fire 'hell' as fuel truck went at top speed to avoid killer spark.
Greenpeace claims up to 300 times more territory in Siberia is ablaze than officially acknowledged.
With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.
With Russia on Covid-19 lockdown, 77 houses were burned down in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions.
Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
Wildfires ablaze early in year due to lack of snow, posing threat to railway in Russian Far East.