With Russia on Covid-19 lockdown, 77 houses were burned down in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions.

Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

'All forest wildfires extinguished' in Siberian Federal District, say officials, but peat flames still raging.

Extreme weather phenomena along with wildfires and flooding are the future 'due to global climate change’.

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Locals in north of Yakutia said daylight was completely gone for several hours.

Residents complain of 'severe carbon monoxide poisoning' as satellite images show blanket of smoke across eastern Siberia.

‘Taiga burning’ - as scared bears are driven out of their natural habitat towards settlements where they are shot as danger to people.