Retiree went out fishing but got lost on his way home in first whiteout of autumn.

Top secret Stalin-era aircraft went down with 2 million roubles on board.

Kristina B, 14, and Valeria K, 15, confessed to killing their 'friend' Sofya (Sonya) Potapova after drinking session.

Aged 4, she battled through chest-deep snow in minus 24 C to plead with closest neighbours to help her blind grandfather.

Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.

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

Stories in the pro-government Chinese media are deleted after mysterious claim of territory giveaway.

Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears! 

Stunning sculptures appear hanging on trees that were submerged by a giant new reservoir.

Two more members of team miraculously survive after being lost in taiga for ‘weeks’ after their ATV ‘sank in river’.