MOSCOW: Wildfires raging in Siberia in record summer temperatures have decreased considerably over the past week, Russia's forest service said Saturday , as it battles blazes by cloud seeding and explosives.
Firefighters are using explosives to contain the fires and using cloud seeding with silver iodide to encourage rain, it said.However most of the fires have been deemed too remote and expensive to handle, with over 333,000 ha currently ablaze in areas where all firefighting efforts have stopped, it said.
From mid-June, regions in Russia's far north, including beyond the Arctic circle, have registered unprecedented heat records. In the Arctic, where the sun doesn't set in the summer, this means that sunlight is heating the Earth's surface around the clock, increasing risk of fires, he said.Fresh satellite images showed Saturday that the largest fires are still in Russia's vast Yakutia region, which is sparsely populated and borders the Arctic Ocean.
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