Amazing scenes as Russia’s iciest region of Yakutia plunges to near record lows, and even the thermometer in the world’s coldest village breaks down.

New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.

Amazing footage shows the bears just 150 metres from the nearest house as shooting is criticised - but does little to deter predators.

Summer flooding will worsen dramatically, and the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2034.

New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.

Critics call it ‘Chernobyl on ice’ but authorities say it is vital to provide energy to remote port in Chukotka.

It almost looks like a lawn mower being pushed across a frozen river. What's going on?

Is global warming the real cause of the raging wildfires sweeping this Siberian republic? 

One of the giants of science in the Soviet and post-USSR eras, a former president of the Academy of Sciences, died aged 87 after a long illness.