but on the other hand, you know, officials are saying that the majority of those buyers have a human factor behind them, so they have human nature, and many ecologists are saying this leads to the fact that there is a huge amount of illegal fire catching in russia and illegal logging in russia, and in order to cover up as wrongdoings you know, sometimes people will light a forest on fire and it s hard to distinguish where all that weight has disappeared, whether it was cut illegally or it was damaged by fire. so it s a coincidence of factors, big money, big politics involved, but ordinary people are suffering. i m joined now by dr merritt turetsky, director of the institute of arctic and alpine research
behind them, so they have human nature, and many ecologists are saying this leads to the fact that there is a huge amount of illegal fire catching in russia and illegal logging in russia, and in order to cover up as wrongdoings you know, sometimes people will light a forest on fire and it s hard to distinguish where all that wood has disappeared, whether it was cut illegally or it was damaged by fire. so it s a coincidence of factors, big money, big politics involved, but ordinary people are suffering. i m joined now by dr merritt turetsky, director of the institute of arctic and alpine research at the university of colorado boulder. we have been predicting acceleration of heat waves, this heat the bulb is certainly sitting over arctic russia now and in fact has been sitting there for a number of months. for more than eight months the arctic has had a fever with temperatures more than ten or 12 celsius above normal, so as having a consequence. very dry fuel sitting in these ecosystems
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The bi-annual Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 20
th attracted a lot of media interest – not least because the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was attending, alongside Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
This is one arena where the two rivals and Cold War adversaries come together as partners, cooperating to ensure stability and well-being in an area shared by nations and Indigenous peoples. As the Arctic Council celebrates its 25
th anniversary, this was its first in-person meeting since the onset of COVID. Russia takes over the rotating chairmanship from Iceland for the next two years, at a crucial time, with climate change dominating the Arctic and international agenda.