Major discovery of Ben Leigh Smith’s vessel which sank off Franz Josef Land in 1881 sandwiched between two giant icebergs.

Analysts say opening of LNG facility in Queensland with exports to China could affect Yamal as Pacific countries look to take on Russia in Asia.

A pioneering French-Siberian Scientific and Education Centre highlights international recognition of Siberia's scientific strength.

Putin hails 'pragmatism and common sense' as he launches US-Russian oil project in Kara Sea, which has Saudi-scale potential.

After 1,907 kilometre odyssey, crossbreed is back home to his day job keeping polar bears at bay in remote weather station. 

Angelina Sadovnikova, then 11, came across the mummified Pleistocene rodent in a cavity left by woolly mammoth tusk diggers.

Warning of methane blasts in Kara Sea adjacent to Yamal craters caused by gas eruptions associated with melting permafrost due to global warming.

Bulging bumps in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas believed to be caused by thawing permafrost releasing methane.

Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle.