Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears! 

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

In case of any doubts, we mean the twitching variety, which are now back to Siberia, resting before their next extraordinary journey. 

Endangered big cat is rescued from black market animal traders.

But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?

Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires.