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This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor going immediately to Moscow, Felix Light, of CBS News and the Moscow Times.

To report from Moscow's point of view, the same experiences in the United States and North America and in Europe.

It's summertime, there's a drought, and it is unusually early for wildfires.

Felix, a very good day to you in Moscow. The wildfires of Siberia, the Moscow Times is now featuring aspects of this story that are interchangeable with stories were coming from Oregon and Northern California.

The wildfires triggered by heat lightning, the drought extensive, making it the very dry conditions, the fire spreading quickly, overwhelming the authorities, and then air pollution.

This story for Russia, is it regarded as unusual or is it summertime in Siberia? Good day to you.

Good day, John. Well, certainly in the last few years these sort of enormous sort of Siberian wildfires have become almost a routine summer story.

They do tend to happen a lot and they tend to get bigger and more destructive, but I think it still has sort of retains very much in Russia.

It's capacity to sort of alarm and to shock people, especially right now in Yakutia.

You know, we're talking this region where the fires of burning is called Yakutia.

It's in the sort of extreme remote corner of sort of northeast in Siberia, the area sort of four times the size of Texas.

And it's sort of known as the cold capital, if you were in Russia.

And the fact that it is burning and that they've had these unprecedented temperatures up there.

I think he's alarming a lot of people. And I think generally in this last sort of year two, three, there's been a great deal of sort of Russian sort of almost tuning into climate changes and issue.

You know, we've seen Putin talking about it and he didn't use to talk about it, but he is now in very kind of almost urgent and alarm terms.

So I think it is a huge issue that Russia is really just caught new onto now.

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