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'Lake Baikal's ability to purify itself is down to an endemic microscopic shrimp called epischura baikalensis'

'Sacred Sea', Peter Thomson

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Massive wildlife tragedy as bears and foxes flee taiga, while smaller animals suffocate in smoke

Predators seek food in villages all around Siberia as climate expert warns of worse fires each year due to soaring rise in temperatures, 10C above average.

'He's a fighter, I knew he'd survive', says mother of 'Mowgli' lost for 72 hours in taiga

New details of how three year old boy stayed alive all alone despite prowling bears and wolves, calling desperately 'Mama, Mama'.

Vladimir Putin takes day off in remote Siberia to mark his 62nd birthday

The Russian president escapes on away-from-it-all break miles from anywhere.

Recent forest fires 'destroyed' 2 million hectares - 'an unprecedented catastrophe in Siberia'

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.

Anger as controversial Siberian 'Hunger Games' creator claims his idea was a 'fake'

Would-be participants accuse Yevgeny Pyatkovsky of cheating them over the ultimate reality game show combating bears and wolves on an Ob River island.

Rescuers praise 'wonderful' and 'resilient' Karina, who survived Siberian wild for almost two weeks

Sculpture of girl and her dog, whose story captivated the world, to be erected at Yakutsk Airport.

It's not getting better... Siberia remains worst-hit as 175,000 firefighters battle forest blazes

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.