This time of winter sees the remarkable grandmother, 76, gliding across the ice on the world’s deepest lake on skates made in WW2.

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

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.

Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.

High levels of ‘fire ice’ trapped in permafrost may turn Russia into a global leader of new gas sources.

Will no-one save Gustav Backmann’s unique Arctic fish freezer designed to maintain a temperature of between -12C to -14C all year round?

The weirdest winter for decades takes a cold turn but milder weather is on the way again.

The flame warms Siberia and even takes a dip in Lake Baikal en route to the Sochi Winter Games.

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