Yamal peninsula

Blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre of the funnel at the Yamal peninsula.

A ceremony was held to begin work at Sabetta port which will be used to export liquefied natural gas. 

Wild animal uses eye contact to 'flatter' biologist Alexander Yakovlev - hoping for a tasty breakfast - at dawn on the shores of the freezing Gulf of Ob.

Scientific expedition on way to retrieve remains of Ice Age giant.

Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.

Bulging bumps in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas believed to be caused by thawing permafrost releasing methane.

Up to 300,000 people a year expected to pass through Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

Dissecting them like surgical abscesses to release the gas seen as one solution to avoid future eruptions.