Chronic wildfires across Siberia have forced birds to flock to the extreme west of Europe in search of sanctuary, it is claimed.
Russians grieving over damage to magical forests surrounding Siberia's jewel.
New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.
Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.
Thousands of hectares of land ablaze with no signs of a let-up.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
Say that again? The Arctic on fire?
Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.
A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.