Many prehistoric creatures craved salt and vital minerals missing from their diets due to abrupt climate change, suggests a new scientific expedition.

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

This is the first picture of mammoth bone marrow from which scientists are seeking to extract DNA to bring the extinct giant back to life.

Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.

Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.

Residents complain of 'severe carbon monoxide poisoning' as satellite images show blanket of smoke across eastern Siberia.

Even in the intense cold, animals need to drink, but shaggy horse Kunduchene refuses to budge, unless escorted by Umka.

Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.