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.
An expedition is underway to locate and analyse deposits of methane in 'underwater permafrost' in the seas of Okhotsk and Japan.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
Putin fires top official in Russian Far East, and calls for Investigative Committee to check how authorities performing.
The freeze is so deep that horses - and even Rudolph - is brought indoors to warm up.
This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.
Pipes are built over bulging and unstable Arctic pingos prone to violent eruptions caused by 'thawing methane gas', as seen twice on the Yamal peninsula this year.
Residents of Krasnoyark take to boats to go to work, while an unusual July snowstorm hits Yakutia.
Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
Northern territories ‘will become arable farmland in 20-to-30 years', and will have to adapt - fast.