winter fires

Charred corpses removed from wreckage in Kemerovo with evidence that victims were trapped inside by locked fire doors.

Ice swimming at night is the best cure for winter blues.

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.

Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.

Kitten is one of the world’s rarest big cats, with only 91 known adults surviving in the wild.

Boy, 11, jumped from 4th floor window engulfed by inferno; girl, 12, phoned aunt to say ‘Please tell Mum I love her'.

New discovery of rare crystal Rosenbergite at 'burning ice' site where earth is hot despite temperatures of minus 35C.

Greenpeace concern as firefighters say they cannot extinguish 3 year blaze with smoke visible from space.