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3 de jul. de 2023 · State of emergency declared in Siberia over raging wildfires. Wildfires have become more intense in Russia in recent seasons, helped by unusually high temperatures in Siberia, driven by...
12 de ago. de 2021 · YAKUTSK, Russia -- Gigantic wildfires are burning across Siberia on a record scale that is larger than all the fires raging this summer around the world combined. The massive blazes in Russia are fueled in part by extreme heat waves and record droughts that scientists are blaming on warmer temperatures linked to climate change.
- Patrick Reevell
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3 de nov. de 2022 · Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times. By Henry Fountain. Nov. 3, 2022. Rapid warming of the Arctic has led to the extreme wildfire seasons experienced in Siberia in recent years, scientists...
The 2022 Siberian wildfires were a series of wildfires in Russia that began in Siberia in early May 2022. Fires were concentrated in the Krasnoyarsk, Altai, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Omsk, Kurgan regions, Khakassia and Sakha republics.
- Climate Change and Increasing Temperatures
- Uncontrolled Forest Fires
- What Happens Next?
In recent years, summer temperatures in Russia have seen record highs in the triple digits—despite being one of the coldest places on Earth. Many experts suspect it's a result of human-driven climate change. The increasing hot weather melted permafrost and, as a result, fueled the numerous fires, report Daria Litvinova and Vladimir Isachenkov for t...
In Russia, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology only keeps track of forest fires that threaten populated areas and omits any fires on grassland plains or farmland, per the Post. Authorities are not required to extinguish fires in regions far away from settlements, also called control zones, per the Moscow Times. Fires located far away from...
Siberian wildfires naturally occur as part of an annual cycle, but climate officials see this year's blazes as a sign of more enormous fire risks in the future. Especially with the amount of carbon released during these wildfires on an already warming planet, writes the Post. Last year when wildfires rolled through Siberia, an estimated 450 million...
11 de may. de 2023 · Wildfires raging in Russia’s Ural Mountains killed at least 21 people and hospitalized several others, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday, quoting officials. The deaths and injuries were...
1 de ago. de 2022 · Wildfires have burned across at least 3.2 million hectares of forest in Russia’s Siberian and Far East regions since the start of the year, according to statistics published by Russia’s Aerial...
