A total of 13.4 million hectares of forest has burned down in Russia between January 2021 to August 2, according to Greenpeace Russia. The majority of fir
"What is different because of climate change is that fires are burning larger areas, affecting places farther to the north," scientist tells NASA.
Due to winds blowing from the north, clouds of smoke from the Siberian wildfires in Russia reached the central and eastern regions of Mongolia on August 4. Despite clearing out the next day, the wildfire smoke has entered the territory of Mongolia once again on August 7.
Fires blazed uncontrolled for a fifth day in Greece on Saturday, ravaging swathes of land on its second-biggest island of Evia where hundreds of people had to be evacuated by ferry and locals joined firefighters in battling the flames.
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