Unexpected find as scientists survey 'time capsule' site of 1901-02 encampment of intended North Pole explorers on remote Alger Island.
Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.
Three adventurers are to drive from the United Kingdom to the world's coldest inhabited town Oymyakon in the Republic of Sakha.
Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.
Culture on edge of Siberia was 'as advanced' as in Middle East, then considered to be the apex of development.
Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.
Winter studies for pupils in Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold stop only when air temperature drops below -56C.
More than 50 servicemen in air drop close to Russia's drifting ice base Barneo.