Eurasia will split in two, dividing the world's largest land mass in southern Siberia.

Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

New route connecting (almost) to diamond capital Yakutsk faces funding and contractor crisis causing delay.

Little cat is possible brother to ‘Boris’ found last year some 15 metres (50ft) away.

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

Russia is to launch an unmanned mission to the Moon as the first blast-off from the new Cosmodrome currently being constructed in Amur region.

Now the prickly rodent lives no closer than 2,000 kilometres away, but its remains - recently dated - are scattered in caves of the Altai Mountains.

Time is running tight as the workers’ individual oxygen kits are about to run out.

Going by train all the way from Beijing (or even London) to New York could become a reality.