The Japanese government is to provide financial assistance for a joint helium-production project, says newspaper The Daily Yomiuri.

Worried about the rapid destruction of permafrost from global warming? Here's how you can counter it by restoring the woolly mammoth habitat.

With partial shells, this intriguing new fossil find in modern-day Yakutia shows this northern polar region in Cretaceous times was not….cold.

Startling new evidence of thawing of glacial ice in less than six decades, with process speeding in last ten years.

Russian Investigative Committee supervise sad final journey for Vlada Dzyuba, 14, who died suddenly in China on three month catwalk assignment.

Zookeepers nurture cotton-top tamarin neglected by adults.

Deal close to produce new Honeywell engines for An-2 planes in Novosibirsk.

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

Hot ash tumbled down the mountain's southeastern slope as Bezymianny showed its power.