Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.

With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.

Ecology groups warn that the extent of fires in forests and taiga has been misreported by up to 159 times compared with satellite evidence of the grim facts.

This vast region has some of the world's greatest rivers, but they could do much more to support the economic regeneration and security of the country.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

Famed for the purest water on the planet, but this 'is no longer true' with 'no drinking' warning in southern part of lake.

Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.

World's coldest region defies its stereotype.