A daily bucket of icy water poured over the head 'helps block winter illnesses, and makes children optimistic'.

This is the first picture of mammoth bone marrow from which scientists are seeking to extract DNA to bring the extinct giant back to life.

There are movies made about the girls performing at the Paralympic Games and the parents who adopted them. But no one notices them in Russia.

Locals hear 'booms from the underworld' in giant ravine but now scientists say it holds secrets of the planet's past.

Worried about the rapid destruction of permafrost from global warming? Here's how you can counter it by restoring the woolly mammoth habitat.

Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is the only woman so far found in an otherwise all-male necropolis, buried in a cocoon of copper and fur.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

Population told there is a 'need' to get back into the garden or field and pull together to overcome economic crisis.

Siberian goggles among the world’s earliest eyewear to prevent winter blindness from the sun’s piercing reflection.