Haunting beauty of massive hole as scientists examine frozen lake formed after giant blowout.

More craters expected to form due to such eruptions as permafrost melts - and they ARE caused by global warming releasing methane gas.

Major bid to check radioactive waste dump area in Arctic archipelago.

Desperate plea by teen whose American mother sent her aged 15...to Siberia.

Fragments of the meteorite which exploded over the Urals have revealed  their geological identity to Siberian scientists.

An earthquake in the vicinity of the Russian Far Eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky can be expected in the coming days, say scientists.

One early visitor: a fireball streaking across the sky and splashing into Lake Baikal.

Eurasia will split in two, dividing the world's largest land mass in southern Siberia.

Most fires will not be extinguished, with major cities polluted by fumes.