Russia's Wildfires Dwarfed All Other Fires Across the World in 2021
Irina Ivanova had just finished milking her five cows early on the morning of the 7th of August when she heard neighbours yelling, “The fire is coming!”
A wildfire that many had thought was under control had been whipped up by strong winds and was barreling toward her village of Byas-Kyuyol in the Russian region of Yakutia, in the heart of the biggest forest in the world. She ran inside to wake her son and his small children and came back out with a bucket of water to defend the single-story home and animal sheds.
But the fire was so intense she was forced to evacuate with a handful of possessions. On the way, she freed the cows to fend for themselves. It was too hot to reach the pigpen by that time; she heard the animals screaming as they were burned alive.
“When the fire came, you only feel fear. You can think of nothing else but fear,” she said when VICE News visited the village later that month.
Media coverage of the 2021 fire season has focused largely on infernos in Europe and the United States, including the record Dixie fire in California. But the wildfires in Russia this summer have been on an entirely different scale, releasing an estimated 970 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, compared to the 130 million tonnes released by the US fires, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. The Russian fires put out more CO2 in three months than Europe's biggest polluter Germany does in a year.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yxx3/russias-wildfires-dwarfed-all-other-fires-across-the-world-in-2021
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Terrifying
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