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As fro­zen land burns, Sibe­ria trem­bles

As fro­zen land burns, Sibe­ria trem­bles By An­ton Troianov­ski / The New York Times © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette MAGARAS, Russia The call for help lit up villagers’ phones at 7:42 on a muggy and painfully smoky evening on Siberia’s fast-warming permafrost expanse. “We urgently ask all men to come to the town hall at 8,” read the WhatsApp message from the mayor’s office. “The fire has reached the highway.” A farmer hopped on a tractor towing a big blue bag of water and trundled into a foreboding haze. The ever-thickening smoke cut off sunlight, and the wind whipped ash into his unprotected face. Flames along the highway glowed orange and hot, licking up the swaying roadside trees.

Siberia reels under wildfires for third year in a row

Siberia reels under wildfires for third year in a row Top Searches Siberia reels under wildfires for third year in a row NYT News Service / Jul 19, 2021, 07:41 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail MAGARAS: For the third year in a row, residents of northeastern Siberia are reeling from the worst wildfires they can remember, and many are left feeling helpless, angry and alone. In recent years, summer temperatures in the Russian Arctic have gone as high as 100 degrees, feeding enormous blazes that thaw what was once permanently frozen ground. Last year, wildfires scorched more than 1,55,399 square kilometres of forest and tundra. Scientists say the fires have been made possible by the extraordinary summer heat in recent years in Siberia. Last year, the fires in the Siberian region of Yakutia released roughly as much CO2 as did all the fuel consumption in Mexico in 2018, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service in Reading, England.

As frozen land burns, Siberia trembles: If we don t have the forest, we don t have life

As frozen land burns, Siberia trembles: If we don t have the forest, we don t have life
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