Winter show time as birds flock to unique ice-free Altai waters.

Forest infernos will be extinguished by the weekend, pledges government, as wildfires become political issue in Moscow.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Unveiled: two extinct cave lions  - dug from the permafrost - make their first appearance since Pleistocene times.

The Alaska-Siberia flight recalls historic Second World War supply route which helped defeat Nazism.

Experts crack prehistoric mystery over extinct babies preserved in permafrost since Ice Age, and reveal the VERY surprising colour of this 'tigerlion' species.

His cries woke other participants, and one shot the bear.

Journalist Kate Baklitskaya today begins an epic 3 month tour of some of Siberia's most iconic places.

Endemic to the remote island of Novaya Zemlya, it survived the Ice Age here, scientists believe, the only creature known to have done so.