Authorities in Russia’s Far East declared a state of emergency today as summer fires spread amid intense heat and storms.
The head of the Sakha Republic, a region also known as Yakutia, in Siberia wrote on the Telegram app that more than 110 forest fires were burning in an area of about 610,000 acres, nearly three-quarters the size of New York City.
“In recent days, there has been intense heat, intense lightning activity, which is the reason for the complexity of the situation,” wrote Aisen Nikolayev.
According to the Interfax news agency, more than 620 firefighters and 33 ground vehicles are involved in the firefighting efforts. No residential areas are directly threatened, according to the same source. The population in Sakha, Russia’s largest region by land area, is about one million.
Forest fires have intensified in Russia in recent years due to unusually high temperatures in Siberia as a result of climate change. Millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants are released into the atmosphere every year due to fires.
The 2021 fire season was the longest ever recorded in Russia, with 188 million hectares of forest destroyed, according to Greenpeace Russia – roughly twice the size of the island of Ireland.
Source: Newsbomb
Authorities in Russia’s Far East declared a state of emergency today as summer fires spread amid intense heat and storms.
The head of the Sakha Republic, a region also known as Yakutia, in Siberia wrote on the Telegram app that more than 110 forest fires were burning in an area of about 610,000 acres, nearly three-quarters the size of New York City.
“In recent days, there has been intense heat, intense lightning activity, which is the reason for the complexity of the situation,” wrote Aisen Nikolayev.
According to the Interfax news agency, more than 620 firefighters and 33 ground vehicles are involved in the firefighting efforts. No residential areas are directly threatened, according to the same source. The population in Sakha, Russia’s largest region by land area, is about one million.
Forest fires have intensified in Russia in recent years due to unusually high temperatures in Siberia as a result of climate change. Millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants are released into the atmosphere every year due to fires.
The 2021 fire season was the longest ever recorded in Russia, with 188 million hectares of forest destroyed, according to Greenpeace Russia – roughly twice the size of the island of Ireland.
Source: Newsbomb
Authorities in Russia’s Far East declared a state of emergency today as summer fires spread amid intense heat and storms.
The head of the Sakha Republic, a region also known as Yakutia, in Siberia wrote on the Telegram app that more than 110 forest fires were burning in an area of about 610,000 acres, nearly three-quarters the size of New York City.
“In recent days, there has been intense heat, intense lightning activity, which is the reason for the complexity of the situation,” wrote Aisen Nikolayev.
According to the Interfax news agency, more than 620 firefighters and 33 ground vehicles are involved in the firefighting efforts. No residential areas are directly threatened, according to the same source. The population in Sakha, Russia’s largest region by land area, is about one million.
Forest fires have intensified in Russia in recent years due to unusually high temperatures in Siberia as a result of climate change. Millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants are released into the atmosphere every year due to fires.
The 2021 fire season was the longest ever recorded in Russia, with 188 million hectares of forest destroyed, according to Greenpeace Russia – roughly twice the size of the island of Ireland.
Source: Newsbomb
