Discover the alarming global wildfire crisis of 2021 in this in-depth exploration of escalating forest fires across regions ...

Russian wildfires that are devastating multiple areas in Siberia have been spotted from space, with two thermal hotspots in the Arctic detected with NASA's Aqua satellite. On Twitter, Mark Parrington, ...

KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Early season wildfires in Siberia this spring threaten yet another record-breaking fire season in Russia, while the Russian government continues to pour ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told regional officials on Tuesday to deal with forest fires in Siberia and said there could be no repeat of last year's fire season, the worst on record. By Felix ...

Nearly 23 million acres burned from 1982 to 2020. But almost half of that occurred in 2019 and 2020, and the region may be near a threshold beyond which extreme fires become more common. By Henry ...

The owner of an illegal nursing home in Western Siberia has been sentenced to six years in prison over a January 2021 fire that killed seven people. The Tyumen district court sentenced Olga Vilyamson ...

GORNY ULUS, Russia - The little domed tents of the volunteer firefighters in the clearing of a Siberian forest can be hard to see - even from only a few steps away - because of the choking smoke.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered regional officials on Tuesday to do more to tackle fires raging in Siberia, after at least eight people were killed over the weekend and hundreds of buildings ...

WASHINGTON — In 2021, wildfires pillaged the world’s carbon-rich snow forests. That year, burning boreal forests released 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, researchers reported March 2 in a ...

Even if you live far from the boreal forests in Canada and Siberia, you’ve likely noticed an increase in smoke from their forest fires. During major blazes in 2023, the smoke oranged the New York sky ...