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How a volcanic bombardment in ancient Australia led to the world's greatest climate catastrophe

Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.

The Conversation

Fires kill at least 8 people in Siberia as high winds hamper rescue

At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes.

Reuters

Several dead after deadly blazes in Russia’s Siberia

At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes.

France 24

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Siberian wildfires burning unchecked because Russian military units which usually fight them are at war

Vast blazes are a major contributor to the climate crisis - but no-one’s putting them out

The Independent UK

Putin ‘resettling Ukrainians 5,500 miles away in Siberia and far east Russia’, report claims

People in Mariupol are being asked to sign papers claiming Ukrainian troops shelled their city

The Independent UK

Ukraine conflict hurts Russian science, as West pulls funding

Dozens of international scientists have arrived each year since 2000 at Russia's remote Northeast Science Station on the Kolyma River in Siberia to study climate change in the Arctic environment.

Reuters

One Siberian postcode has dozens of war dead - but mysteriously none in Moscow

Different parts of Russia have widely different numbers of war dead, according to the official record, raising questions about fatality estimates issued by the Kremlin during the invasion

Daily Mirror

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Martin Schram: Quit winging it and fly home, Putin

In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see.

Tribune News Service

Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses caught up in "extremist" law

In the early morning of Feb. 15, 2019, armed police and intelligence agents burst into Timofey Zhukov's home in Surgut, an oil town in western Siberia. They knocked him to the floor, then began searching his belongings, he said.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin moves family to 'hidden underground city in Siberia' as world on 'high alert' for nuclear warfare

In a recent post, the Telegram channel General SVR said senior political figures at the Kremlin "were warned on behalf of the president that, perhaps in the near future, they will participate in practising evacuation in case of a nuclear war

Irish Mirror

A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be…

The Conversation

Russia admits loss of first GRU military intelligence agent in Ukraine war

GRU spy Captain Alexey Glushchak, from Tyumen in Siberia, died in Mariupol in the south east of Ukraine and was buried in Russia with full military honours and a guard of honour

Daily Mirror

24,000-Year-Old Animal Found Alive, Well And Ready To Reproduce

For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism had been snoozing in Siberian permafrost.

Zenger

‘They were sent as cannon fodder’: Siberian governor confronted by relatives of Russian unit

Video shows Sergei Tsivilyov being blamed for deploying local riot police to Ukraine

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What is the coldest city in the world?

The coldest city in the world is in Siberia, where temperatures plummet to minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's why it's so cold there.

The Independent UK

Russia holds drills with nuclear subs, land-based missiles

Russian nuclear submarines have sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers are roaming snow forests in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation’s nuclear forces put on high alert

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin has moved family to secret Siberian nuclear bunker, expert claims

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, has moved his family to a secret bunker in the Altai Mountains while war with Ukraine rages, according to Professor Valery Solovey

The Independent UK

Russians hold anti-war rallies amid ominous threats by Putin

Russians in cities spanning from Moscow to Siberia have taken to the streets again to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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UN: Wildfires Getting Worse Globally, Governments Unprepared

A warming planet and changes to land use patterns mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems that governments are ill prepared to confront, according to a UN report being released Wednesday. The western US, northern…

Zenger

VIDEO: Siberian Flying Squirrels Appear To Kiss Before Mayhem Breaks

The species is capable of jumping and gliding 150 feet through the air from trees.

ABC News

A microlight flight around Australia to highlight endangered migratory shorebirds' plight

Hit with the idea to learn to fly and follow the route of shorebirds, Milly Formby booked a trial flight and was hooked. Now she's embarking on a 20,000km trip around the coast.

Financial Times

In Siberia, a crypto boom made of ingenuity, defiance and DIY

Fuelled by cheap electricity and Chinese hardware, households across the region are furiously mining cryptocurrency as a crackdown looms

Newcastle Herald

Return to the pit known as 'Siberia'

What was it like to work at the remote former Aberdare South Colliery?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Bombers Fly over Belarus amid Ukraine Tensions

Russia on Saturday sent a pair of long-range nuclear-capable bombers on patrol over its ally Belarus amid spiraling tensions over Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said the two Tu-22M3 bombers practiced interacting with the Belarusian air force and air defense during a four-hour mission. The flight followed several similar patrols…

Al Jazeera

In Russia, Indigenous land defenders face intimidation and exile

Pressure on communities comes as regional elites and big companies look to develop resource-rich Indigenous lands.

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