Vast wildfires in Russia’s Yakutia have already set an emissions record
Smoke from the fires reached the North Pole, some 3,000 kilometers away.
August 4, 2021
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MOSCOW — Summer wildfires have already produced a record amount of carbon emissions in Russia’s Siberian region of Yakutia, with still more weeks of the fire season to come, according to the European Union’s Copernicus satellite monitoring unit.
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