As a debate is underway on culling as many as 250,000 reindeer due to overgrazing, Research Professor Bruce C Forbes warns against some proposed solutions.
Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.
Dazzling white 'sand', perfect sunshine, blue waves on the horizon, friends, a great mood… and minus 20C
Staycations have become a 'mass source of income' for businesses on the edge of Baikal, with predictions of more to come in 2015.
Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.
Orthodox blessing for Soyuz-2 rocket ahead of historic unmanned mission.
With partial shells, this intriguing new fossil find in modern-day Yakutia shows this northern polar region in Cretaceous times was not….cold.
Her fun blog from 'cool and exciting' Yakutsk has tips on making the most of the extreme cold.