Besides, it is impossible to halt global warming which has been underway for many decades, insists the president.

Thermometers go above zero in places where the winter should be 20 or 30 degrees colder.

Likely brought some 6,000 kilometres by ancient traders seeking walrus tusks, hunting birds and fur.

Northern territories ‘will become arable farmland in 20-to-30 years', and will have to adapt - fast.

Its residents will live in a vast man-made 'igloo' to protect them from polar temperatures and some of the most biting winds on the planet.

Nature makes its own collection of snowballs on the Arctic shore of the Gulf of Ob.

Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists. 

Major discovery of Ben Leigh Smith’s vessel which sank off Franz Josef Land in 1881 sandwiched between two giant icebergs.