Compass failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.

Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.

Startling new details emerge of the most mysterious of Siberia's newly created giant permafrost holes.

Female meteorologists at remote weather station feel 'besieged' by hungry and menacing animals.

Famous traveller and film director Nicolas Vanier embarks on a new epic dog sled trip.

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.

Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.

How satellite tracking unlocks nature's secrets enabling us to follow woodcocks on their epic flights.