International researchers have gleaned these extraordinary hidden scientific secrets by drilling 318 metres into a unique lake in northeastern Siberia.
Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.
Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.
New study warns of methane escaping from the sea floor due to degradation of submarine permafrost.
Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.
'Global warming' behind major change in arrivals from Omsk to Pacific.
Earth is moving as 'leaking methane gas due to global warming causes surface to bubble' in a new phenomenon.
Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.