Pro-Kremlin eco-groups echo Greenpeace concerns by highlighting burning of forests which do not appear in government reports.

An investigation is underway in Tyva region over thousands of people being left without heating in temperatures of minus 40C.

Some 39 convicts wounded their own arms and shoulders in the mutiny at Prison number 3 in Irkutsk.

Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.

Stunning new Danish-designed buildings will offer new hope to orphans and their adoptive families.

Tragedy as teens walked in biting cold rather than wait for bus.

Global warming spells doom for boreal forests with potentially dramatic implications for carbon release in dark taiga.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.