Lena Pillars, a World Heritage Site, hit by the rampant flames, as calls grow for greater efforts to tackle infernos.

Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.

The unique scientific vault will safely store ancient remains at temperatures as low as minus 24C.

Kerechene was laboratory-made in South Korea by scientists who also want to genetically engineer the return of the woolly mammoth.

Fast-freezing clothes, hot water fireworks, ice and snow bathing, vodka lollipops, dog sledging - see our report from the Kingdom of Cold.

Like a Russian nesting doll, one diamond is inside another.

Sensational find of  head of the beast with its brain intact, preserved since prehistoric times in permafrost.

Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.

Amazing scenes as Russia’s iciest region of Yakutia plunges to near record lows, and even the thermometer in the world’s coldest village breaks down.

A deal worth at least $60 million a year is close between Russia's largest diamond mining company and the US giant Tiffany & Co.