Siberia

Russia: Siberian city freezes as temperature plummets to minus 50 degrees centigrade

Residents in the mining town of Yakutsk, which is located around 5,000 kilometers east of Moscow in the Russian Far East, are suffering from extreme cold this winter

Pathaan becomes the first Hindi film to be shot at the frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia

President Putin inaugurates key natural gas field in Siberia to increase exports to China

Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the Kovykta gas field in eastern Siberia. He said the launch of the field will ‘give a serious boost to the socio-economic development’ of Russia's eastern regions

Hundreds of dead ravens fall from the sky in Russian village, leave experts baffled

The incident reportedly took place in the Russian village of Ust-Tarka, which is located in Novosibirsk Oblast in south-western Siberia.

Explained: Why temperatures in Siberia are the same as in Patna and Nashik

Countries in Eastern Europe are going through a spell of sultry weather that experts and activists say is unmistakable proof of how global warming is impacting the climate.

Micro-animal frozen in Siberia's permafrost for 24,000 years comes back to life

Once thawed, the animal was able to reproduce asexually using a process called parthenogenesis.

Strange ripples on swirling hills seen in Landsat-8 images leave NASA perplexed

The images show ripples on land on either side of the Markha river, with alternating light and dark stripes that give it an optical illusion-like quality.

Out of coma, Russia's Alexei Navalny says he is now more than 'technically alive'

The Russian opposition leader, who is being treated for suspected nerve agent poisoning in Germany, said that once he was brought out of the coma, he was confused and couldn't find the words to respond to a doctor's questions

Well-preserved fossil of a woolly mammoth has been discovered in a Siberian lake

The faeces of the mammoth will contain a lot of information about the 'mammoth's diet as well as the pollen of ancient plants and a lot more'.

WMO will verify hottest recorded temperature in Siberia, says its worrying but consistent with global warming

WMO has “given tentative acceptance of this observation as a legitimate observation”, which is consistent with other regional data.