People evacuated after thunderstorms-with-no-rain ignite foliage and forests.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
Hundreds - including dozens of children - evacuated safely as fires destroy and threaten homes.
Victims burned to death while fighting blaze after three massive explosions.
Forest fire may have caused the blasts which led to 400 people being evacuated.
Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.
World's coldest region defies its stereotype.
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.