Emergency: Siberia catches fire

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Emergency: Siberia catches fire 09/07 MADELEINE STONE

A terrible heat wave induced by climate change has sparked a series of fires in land usually too frozen to burn. A phenomenon that scientists fear to see generalize.

For several months, Siberia has lived at the rate of a heat wave due to the persistence of the summer sun and to climate change induced by humans. In addition to temperatures exceeding 38 ° C that it caused in the month of June in the Arctic, the heat wave has also fueled a series of forest fires, including fires on the tundra, whose normally frozen permafrost is in danger of breaking down. be even less this year.

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