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Is it snowing microplastics in Siberia?

Russian scientists are trying to understand the scale of a potential threat to the environment in Siberia: snow polluted with microplastics that then melts and seeps into the ground.

WATCH: ‘Singing’ tiger gains popularity on social media

The eight-month-old male Amur tiger cub is not in pain and makes high-pitched sounds when he is trying to attract attention.

WATCH: People go crazy over wonders of extreme winters

The post has gone viral on the microblogging platform, garnering more than 14,500 likes and over 3,700 retweets.

WATCH: World’s ‘oldest dog’ found from Siberia   

A 18,000-year-old dog found from a tunnel in Siberia is making rounds on social media and scientists believe it could be the oldest dog ever.

15 die in dam collapse at Siberian gold mine

Fifteen people were killed and another six missing after an illegally built dam collapsed at an artisanal gold mine in a remote Siberian settlement on Saturday, in the latest deadly accident to hit Russia.

Human cousin explains mountain gene mutation

A jawbone dating from at least 160,000 years ago of a Denisovan -- a now-extinct branch of humanity -- is the first of its kind discovered outside of southern Siberia

Eighteen killed in Russian helicopter crash in Siberia

Eighteen people were killed in a helicopter crash in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia.

64 dead in Russian shopping mall inferno

A total of 64 people, many of them children, perished in a fire that ravaged a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia.

At least 53 die in Russia shopping mall fire

MOSCOW: At least 53 people were killed by a fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry...

WATCH: It’s -62°C in this Russian region, even people’s eyelashes are freezing

We were recently stunned to discover cold wave in the UK with temperature soaring to -8°C, but a region in Russia is witnessing a...

Heatwave scorches Europe, from London to Siberia

PARIS: Europe sizzled in a continent-wide heatwave on Wednesday, with London bracing for Britain's hottest June day since 1976 as Portugal battled to stamp...

WATCH: 7-foot volleyball player dragged off flight for being too tall

MOSCOW: A bizarre was recorded on camera when Russian police officers forced a 7-feet volleyball player for being too tall to fly. The complaint was...

19 dead in Russian helicopter crash in Siberia: officials

MOSCOW: At least 19 people were killed when a helicopter crashed in northwestern Siberia, Russia's Investigative Committee said Saturday. Investigators said in a statement that...

Ancient people conquered the Arctic at least 45,000 years ago

WASHINGTON: The frozen carcass of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia with unmistakable signs of spear wounds is providing evidence that people inhabited Arctic regions thousands of years earlier than previously known.

Disgruntled Siberian city wants a cat as mayor

BARNAUL, RUSSIA: Fed up with corruption and nepotism among local officials, residents of a far-flung Siberian city are yearning for a more feline kind of political representation.

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