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The tiny hillocks have an almost regular polygonal shape

Thawing permafrost dots Siberia with rash of mounds

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the landscape, cracking up houses and releasing greenhouse gases.

News Lens • 30 Apr

Smoke from nearby forest fires hangs over the city of Yakutsk

Putin orders reinforcements to fight Siberia wildfires

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials to send in reinforcements to fight forest fires that continue to tear through Siberia.

World • 10 Aug 21

A wildfire rages in a forest in the Buryatia area of Siberia

Siberia's heatwave 'impossible' without climate change

The heatwave that has hit Siberia over the last six months would have been "effectively impossible" without climate change caused by humans, scientists have found.

Environment • 16 Jul 20

A wildfire burns in Yakutia, Russia earlier this month

EU climate network confirms warmest May on record

Temperatures soared 10C above average last month in Siberia, home to much of the Earth's permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record.

Environment • 05 Jun 20

A large red spillage in the Ambarnaya river

Putin slams mining company over Siberian diesel leak

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency and criticised a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel after a massive diesel spill into a Siberian river.

World • 03 Jun 20

Lake Baikal in Russia is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world

Irish men travel 800km across frozen Siberian lake

Two Irish men have been part of a successful world record attempt of traveling the entire length of the largest frozen lake in the world.

News Lens • 12 Mar 20

While the building appears abandoned, there are families living there

Mix-up leaves Russian families stuck in frozen flats

Freezing water from burst pipes has turned a housing block in the Siberian city of Irkutsk into something more closely resembling an iceberg than a residential building.

News Lens • 23 Jan 20

Image: Love Dalén/Centre for Palaeogenetics

Meet Dogor, the 18,000-year-old puppy found in Siberia

Scientists have discovered the perfectly preserved body of a puppy believed to be more than 18,000 years old in a remote part of northeast Siberia.

News Lens • 29 Nov 19

The polar bear was hundreds of kilometres from its natural habitat (Pics: Putoranatour)

Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city

A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia.

World • 19 Jun 19

Mikhail Popkov was already in prison after being convicted of killing 22 women in 2015

Serial killer policeman convicted of further 56 murders

A Siberian policeman who raped and killed women after offering them late-night rides has been found guilty of dozens more murders, making him Russia's most prolific serial killer of recent times.

World • 10 Dec 18

Oleg Sentsov pictured in 2015 during his trial

Kremlin urged to free hunger-striking filmmaker

Hollywood stars, including Naomi Watts and Christoph Waltz, have called on Russia not to let hunger striking Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov die in prison.

Russia • 08 Sep 18

A Mi-8 helicopter shown in a handout photo made available by Russian airline UTair

18 killed in Russian helicopter crash in Siberia

Eighteen people have died in a helicopter crash in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia, according to the country's aviation watchdog and emergency services.

World • 04 Aug 18

Russia says short circuit caused deadly mall fire

Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry has said that preliminary findings show a deadly fire last month was caused by a short circuit, the RIA news agency reported, quoting a ministry spokesman.

Russia • 17 Apr 18

Fire destroyed parts of the Winter Cherry shopping centre in Kemerovo

Safety violations at site of deadly Russian fire

Russian authorities investigating the devastating shopping centre fire in Siberia, which left 64 people dead, have said there were "serious violations" at the centre.

World • 26 Mar 18