Arctic heatwave
Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.
Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.
Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.
Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.
Today it's +32C in Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, and locals escape heatwave like true Siberians - by chilling on ice.
Russian army biological protection troops called in amid warnings 'utmost care' needed to stop deadly infection spreading.
Boy killed 'after lethal infection 'awoke' in human graveyard due to unprecedented heat wave'.
Predators seek food in villages all around Siberia as climate expert warns of worse fires each year due to soaring rise in temperatures, 10C above average.
Sent to Siberia
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