Visitors ‘risking their lives’ to witness spectacular formation of second cone on Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka.

Dissecting them like surgical abscesses to release the gas seen as one solution to avoid future eruptions.

An 8 km high plume was recorded from the southernmost major stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula.

The stunning pictures of a volcanic eruption and lava flow were taken by Liudmila and Andrew, bloggers and travellers.

Scientists rush to site of latest tundra eruption - which formed a crater 50 metres deep - amid fears for homes and key industrial sites.

The 7,000  year old volcano is the highest mountain in Russia outside the Caucases. 

Sparkling discovery of precious gems in solidified lava of Tolbachik flare-up.

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.

Man ‘caused some of the tundra blasts forming the large holes’, says leading scientist in surprising new theory.