Meet Syoma, the fearless, who plays cat and mouse....with a fox. 

Fewer bears in the Siberian region of Tomsk this year are waking from hibernation and hungrily raiding remote villages and towns scavenging for food.

Vera Timoshenko, 93, died on her native Bering island off the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Pacific.

Hunters’ fury as a wild beast makes off with a box filled with their picnic.

I was sitting 3-to-4 metres away from the cubs waiting to see what would happen next. The mother returned back later and fed the cubs.

Rodion Burakov, 16, distracted beast allowing Boris, 13, to flee - but older boy was mauled to death, his torn body buried by predator.

Drifts have reached one metre in height with schools closed, cars abandoned and even a military tank pulling out stranded drivers.

New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.

Keep this to yourself, but one of the last great undiscovered travel secrets on our planet is the Land of Fire and Ice.