disaster

180 metre-long causeway built in sea to reach stricken tanker to prevent more pollution.

Bad weather preventing clean up amid fears for endangered sea lions.

Leading oil producer Rosneft burns spilled oil to 'minimise ecological damage'.

A day of mourning will be held on Thursday for the victims of a fatal five metre high avalanche  that struck a group of seven teenagers. 

Floodwater from Ob River is black from spill as emergency workers flight to limit damage.

The Mi-8 training flight ‘exploded’ after slamming into a field with communications antennae at Khabarovsk Disaster Medicine Centre.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

Ten fishermen stayed alive in their life raft by casting off the 'dead bodies' of eight crew mates who froze to death in raging seas.

Crashing viaduct narrowly misses a freight train - and rail worker is seen fleeing the disaster.

People begin to mop up their waterlogged homes: but what about the 'abandoned' dogs and cats?