Major discovery of Ben Leigh Smith’s vessel which sank off Franz Josef Land in 1881 sandwiched between two giant icebergs.

Russian army biological protection troops called in amid warnings 'utmost care' needed to stop deadly infection spreading.

Locals hear 'booms from the underworld' in giant ravine but now scientists say it holds secrets of the planet's past.

The freeze is so deep that horses - and even Rudolph - is brought indoors to warm up.

Murky underwater videos suggest wreckage of Eira is finally rediscovered off Cape Flora on Franz Josef Land archipelago, where it sank in 1881.

Shoreline on remote island retreats by 74 metres in seven years due to increased wave power of unfrozen sea, and thawing permafrost.

A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.

Pipes are built over bulging and unstable Arctic pingos prone to violent eruptions caused by 'thawing methane gas', as seen twice on the Yamal peninsula this year.

Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?

Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to birth of new hole in river.