Eye-catching numbers have emerged on the expected trade boom from the Arctic route to Europe for Chinese business. 

Californian academics say tests confirm Rhodiola rosea aka 'golden root' DOES increase lifespan by 24% (well, this is in fruit flies).

These extraordinary pictures give graphic new evidence of climate change.

'I cry and say thank you to the Russians that they welcomed us so warmly'.

Fears for plan to stimulate Russian economy via major infrastructure links to Asia and Europe as Beijing announces rival scheme.

Startling new details emerge of the most mysterious of Siberia's newly created giant permafrost holes.

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

This and 10 other silly questions answered by the Arctic explorer Alexander Oboimov.

Through his extraordinary photographs, Sergey Anisimov has done more than most to show real Siberia to the world.

Expedition from Urals Federal University finds 300 samples of suspected space debris, clues to the history of the universe.