The Siberian flying squirrel makes its nest in boreal forests across Scandinavia, Russia and Northern Asia. They can glide through the tree tops using the membrane between their fore- and hind-legs.

Russia accounts for about 20% of the world’s forests. Its vast boreal forests in Siberia help store immense amounts of carbon ...

A "Russian barbarian ... firefighters who jump from planes and rappel from helicopters, cover a swath of boreal forest that stretches from Arctic tundra to the Mongolian border.