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Siberian rolls under forest fires for the third year in a row

Siberian rolls under forest fires for the third year in a row
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Magaras: For the third year in a row, Southeast Residents of Siberia staggered from the worst forest fires they could remember, and many were left with feelings of helpless, angry and alone.
In recent years, the summer temperatures in the Russian Arctic have been as high as 100 degrees, feeding a very large blazes that disbursed what used to be frozen land permanently.
Last year, Wildfires scored more than 1,55,399 kilometers of square forests and tundra.
Scientists said fires had been made possible by extraordinary summer heat in recent years in Siberia.
Last year, fires in the Siberia Yakutia region released around CO2 as well as all fuel consumption in Mexico in 2018, according to Copernicus atmospheric monitoring services in Reading, England.
Life in Northeastern Siberia revolves around the northern forest, known as Taiga.
This is a source of beri, mushrooms, meat, wood and firewood.
When burning, permafrost below it melts faster, turning wood to swamps.
Scientists said fires had been accelerated in the past three years, threatening the sustainability of Taiga ecosystems.
“If we don’t have a forest, we don’t have life,” said Magaras Resident Maria Nogovitsina.
Four days of traveling in Yakutia this month revealed sentiment that the government did not understand the state of the people.
Instead of accepting that climate change is blame, many recurrent conspiracy theories, among them that fires are determined by bent officials.

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