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

Thermometers go above zero in places where the winter should be 20 or 30 degrees colder.

These extraordinary pictures give graphic new evidence of climate change.

Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.

Found 30 metres underground at a coal mine, they're dubbed 'Jurassic pearls' or the marbles of a Siberian colossus. 

Residents of sub-Arctic Verkhoyansk district of Yakutia woke up in complete darkness.

Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.

Bear and goats among drowned animals at two zoos after typhoon and heavy rain hits Russian Far East.

Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.