Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Population Displacement
A Song of Flood and Fire: One Million Square Kilometers of Burning Siberia Doused by Immense Deluge
August 15, 2013
Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Population Displacement
August 15, 2013
About a week and a half ago, I reported on a great burning event in which a massive region of Russian Siberia erupted in hundreds of wildfires blanketing it in a sea of smoke clearly visible in the NASA Aqua Satellite record. Today, reports from Interfax/Radio Russia describe an immense flood emergency in which over 1 million square kilometers of Russia’s Yakutia region have been submerged by a catastrophic rain event.