Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.
Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?
New purchase's total reserves are put at 2.2 billion tonnes of coking coal, and around 50 billion cubic metres of methane gas.
High levels of ‘fire ice’ trapped in permafrost may turn Russia into a global leader of new gas sources.
Scientists say there is growing evidence that rising temperatures were catalyst for massive unexplained holes in ground.
Vineyards will flourish as winters become almost 10C milder heralding a large population influx, says new scientific prediction.
Startling new evidence of thawing of glacial ice in less than six decades, with process speeding in last ten years.