All public events cancelled, extra protection for children as they go to kindergarten and school.
56 hungry polar bear besiege village in Chukotka
2019 to be ‘worst-ever year’ for wildfires in Siberia and ‘only rain can now extinguish flames’
Massive wildlife tragedy as bears and foxes flee taiga, while smaller animals suffocate in smoke
Fire and flood apocalypse with wildfires raging and dire threat to Baikal, world’s deepest lake
More than two million hectares on fire in Siberia, with turndra on fire destroying the permafrost
The abandoned chemicals plant that could trigger ‘an environmental disaster akin to Chernobyl’
Major Siberian cities choking from strong wildfires
Finally! Operation begins to release ‘whale jail’ inmates, announced on Putin’s TV hotline
Don’t feed the lost polar bear! warn Russian experts as rescue poised to begin
Starving polar bear 'can hardly move', say residents of Norilsk
Let them go! Call to end the torture of killer and beluga whales
‘Wounded rare tiger seeks human help’ at remote border post on Russian-Chinese frontier
Threat of extinction ‘over’ as Kremlin confirms rarest big cats in world pass key milestone
Concern over raging wildfires as smoke from Siberia crosses Alaska and Canada, reaching New England
Blood coloured rain in Arctic? A biblical plague? The apocalypse? What’s going on?
Immediate public audit of a high risk waste storage in Russia is urged.
Ecologists from several countries lost battle to poachers who caught an endangered dark-feathered bird.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?
One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.
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.