Vice Premier sees scope to make Arctic 'ours forever' with plans to harness resources and help protect fragile environment.

Demands increased on 3 August for a 'state of emergency' to be declared on the world's fifth longest river due to a catastrophic shortage of water.

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

Pristine forests around the world's oldest lake go up in flames.

Siberian ancestors hunted the squat short-legged horse, even though this type of animal was believed to have been wiped out 400,000 years ago.

Famous traveller and film director Nicolas Vanier embarks on a new epic dog sled trip.

It sounds like a real-life Jurassic Park, but the woolly mammoth could be stomping the Siberian taiga in less than 20 years.

Destruction of natural habitat by forest fires 'explains bears causing terror in residential areas'.

99 year old sailing ship successfully passes the most challenging part of its Arctic odyssey…. and there is NO ice.