Siberia is geographical shorthand for “very cold.” But even by Siberian standards, what’s happening in the eastern Siberia hamlet of Oymyakon right now is ...

Siberia – the Asian part of Russia, east of the Ural Mountains – is immense. It takes up three-quarters of Russia's land mass, the equivalent of the entire U.S. and India put together.

In the vast landscape of eastern Siberia, there is a massive hole in the ground known as the 'doorway to the underworld' triggered from climate change in the recent decades.