Wildfires

Wildfires – Siberia

Wildfires in Siberia and the Russian Far East are as much as 10 times worse compared to this time last year, as the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic join forces to fan the flames.

As of April 27, ten times the amount of land was on fire in the Krasnoyarsk region compared to the same time last year, The Siberian Times reported. In Transbaikal, meanwhile, three times as much land was burning, and in the Amur region, there were 1.5 times as many fires.

Around five million acres of Russian forest and grassland were on fire, and the largest fire was one million acres total.

The regions of Kemerovo and Novosibirsk among others have been the hardest hit to date. In Novosibirsk, around 50 homes were burned and in Kemerovo, 27

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