Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.

Spectacular whiteout scenes of winter life in the Arctic city of Norilsk.

Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.

The inquisitive baby took a first walk at Orto Doidu zoo in Yakutsk aged three and a half months.

Yakutia in a white blanket as temperatures dip to minus 6C as winter 'comes too soon'.

High levels of ‘fire ice’ trapped in permafrost may turn Russia into a global leader of new gas sources.

Will no-one save Gustav Backmann’s unique Arctic fish freezer designed to maintain a temperature of between -12C to -14C all year round?

For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices. 

200 metres wide thermocirque seen weeks after scientists find funnel in the Yamal peninsula, caused by build up of methane.

Pipes are built over bulging and unstable Arctic pingos prone to violent eruptions caused by 'thawing methane gas', as seen twice on the Yamal peninsula this year.