Akshat Rathi and Jake RudnitskyLondon/Moscow — After the hottest winter on record, the Russian spring has brought a Siberian heat wave that is reigniting fires still smouldering since last year.
Hot, dry weather dried out vegetation sooner than normal leading to wildfires in the boreal forests with some blazes starting in March and stretching into May. An early start typically means a longer fire season, say academics at Swansea University.“Siberia has a lot of stored carbon,” said Cristina Santin Nuno, associate professor at Swansea University. “What happens to it will affect the planet in a substantial way.
Wildfires and hotter temperatures get sea-ice melt going sooner. The receding of ice in the Arctic opened up the Northern Sea Route to tanker traffic a month earlier than usual this year. This is the shortest and cheapest route for cargoes of liquefied natural gas produced in the Russian Arctic to reach Asia.
These forecasts come after Siberia had some of its worst wildfires last summer, which burned more than 13-million hectares of land, an area the size of Greece. In June, they released as much carbon dioxide as Sweden does in a year.
IronFalcon77 A fire can smolder for an entire year, even through one of the harshest winters on the planet? I find that incredibly hard to believe. This story sounds more credible, and disturbing.
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