Eye-catching numbers have emerged on the expected trade boom from the Arctic route to Europe for Chinese business.
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
Unique Paleolithic prize for scientists, a jaw of an early human who 'feasted on woolly mammoth' - but may have been cannibalised.
Russia’s coldest region harvests first berries and mushrooms weeks ahead of schedule.
Endemic to the remote island of Novaya Zemlya, it survived the Ice Age here, scientists believe, the only creature known to have done so.