More than 658,000 reindeer are up for vaccination in order to prevent another outbreak of the deadly bacteria infection.

Melted permafrost that exposed an infected reindeer carcass is believed to have resulted in the cases that killed a 12-year-boy and sickened eight others.

Seventy-two nomadic herders, including 41 children, were hospitalised in far north Russia after the region began experiencing abnormally high temperatures

Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.