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BURNING SIBERIA: #Bestof2021: The wildfires abate; the permafrost ablaze. Svetlana Skarbo, Novosibirsk. @Siberian_Times (Originally posted October 21, 2021)

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BURNING SIBERIA: #Bestof2021: The wildfires abate; the permafrost ablaze. Svetlana Skarbo, Novosibirsk. @Siberian_Times (Originally posted October 21, 2021)

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/permafrost-is-ablaze-with-hundreds-of-wildfires-in-worlds-coldest-region/

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batschewis, Fetlana Scarbo,

0:38.9

the editor and publisher of Siberian time. She's in Novosibirsk, where it is

0:45.4

colder and the snow is flying. And we're speaking of Siberia, this vast canvas of the Earth

0:52.0

that over these last months, when I first met Svetlana through the Siberian times,

0:57.0

was under fire so large that the smoke, the ash, was moving across the North Tempered Zone

1:05.0

towards North America. We had our own fires, but dwarfed by the fires of Yakutia.

1:10.9

The expectation now is that the fires have ease because this part of the world, the most

1:17.3

remote part of Siberia is under snow. But Svetlana, the last time you said the concern was

1:25.2

when the fires ease because the snow would come, that would the fires continue into the melting

1:32.0

permafrost into the peak? What do we know has happened? We had a truly awful summary of the

1:38.3

world fires, which were with the season for the first time in memory and actually in the recorded

1:44.5

history. So the first time this season has finished as late as the first of October, and to explain

1:49.6

why it's so late in Yakutia, snow starts, I mean the temperatures go into negative from about

1:58.0

mid-lux September. So it's not like, it's not the traditional autumn as the rest of the world

2:04.3

understands it's for Yakutia and of September. It's really a very, very cold time, rainy,

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