Deposits uncovered 56 years ago set to finally be extracted as drillers aim to take on China and become a major force in producing ore.

A grave on Lena River sand bank ‘proves site north of Yakutsk city is not historic original Cossack settlement’ in coldest region.

Spaso-Zashiverskaya has survived wars, permafrost, and a smallpox outbreak that wiped out its congregation.

These extraordinary pictures give graphic new evidence of climate change.

More flooding misery due to burst dam as experts say the cause is global warming.

The Russian president's trip on Wednesday coincided with a marked improvement in levels of pollution, they claim.

Unique Paleolithic prize for scientists, a jaw of an early human who 'feasted on woolly mammoth' - but may have been cannibalised. 

Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.