Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.
Permanent customs task force unveiled as Sabetta gears up to take Russian goods and gas over the top of the world.
Modern-day zeppelins costing $30 million each would revolutionise transport links and economic exploitation of Siberia in $240 billion plan.
The Yamal peninsula has the world's richest gas reserves, and soon it will grow juicy tomatoes as well.
Subsea permafrost thaws faster than previously thought, Russian scientists say.
The marine mammals were washed ashore on an 800 kilometre stretch of the region's Arctic coast.
Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.
The navigator, who served in the Navy of Peter the Great, gave his name to the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and Bering Bridge.
Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.