After this year's discovery of uncongealed mammoth blood, experts are confident of new discoveries.

Proceeds of a sale of a stake in Alrosa diamond giant will benefit local people, vows governor.

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

New find expected to 'change our understanding of the evolution of animals'.

Current president of Sakha-based company leaves after 'difficult' relationship with senior officials in Moscow.

A quarter of all Russian forests, 89% of stocks in Sakha Republic, could be left to burn, even though they are essential to fight global warming.

People evacuated after thunderstorms-with-no-rain ignite foliage and forests.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Life returns to port of Tiksi with construction of a military town.