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 ...

Since the beginning of this year, more than 1.4 million hectares of land have been affected by wildfires in Russia.

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.