Chronic wildfires across Siberia have forced birds to flock to the extreme west of Europe in search of sanctuary, it is claimed.

Police say they suspect suicide of 32 year old from Yakutsk despite seven stab wounds to his chest and gashes on his arm. 

Wildfires ablaze early in year due to lack of snow, posing threat to railway in Russian Far East.

New geological evidence shows polar 'submarine elevations' as 'natural components' of Siberian continental land mass.

Teenager is set on fire before diving five floors into a pile of snow.

Global warming spells doom for boreal forests with potentially dramatic implications for carbon release in dark taiga.

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.