My homeland, one of the coldest places on Earth🌍, is on fire 🔥 again. Siberian heatwaves have been exacerbating with each year. Around my hometown (Tomsk) in Western Siberia 🌲, there has been a hugely increased number of bears 🐻 who migrated from Eastern Siberia due to the wildfires there 🔥. Poor animals have become climate change refugees thanks to human stupidity.
The wildfires are 10X more than usual due to the hottest and driest summer on record. For the first time in history, the smoke reached the North pole.
Few realize that arctic permafrost contains a third of the world’s carbon-rich soil. This ancient permafrost stores thousands of years of carbon — fuel. Lightning usually ignites the fires in the first place. Burning peat is particularly destructive, because its greater heat melts permafrost and oxidizes the underlying peat, emitting destructive greenhouse gases. Burning peat releases more than 100 times more carbon than a traditional wildfire.
Russia’s 2021 Wildfires Now Largest in Its Recorded History
在西伯利亞發生的事情會超越西伯利亞
我的家鄉，地球上最冷的地方之一🌍，又火災了🔥西伯利亞的熱浪每年都在加劇 由於東西伯利亞的野火🔥熊🐻遷移過來的我的家鄉（西西伯利亞）造成熊的數量大大增加了。由於人類的愚蠢，可憐的動物已經成為氣候變化的難民了
由於有破記錄以來最熱和最乾燥的夏季，野火比平時多 10 倍。歷史上第一次，煙霧到達了北極
很少有人意識到北極永久凍土包含世界上三分之一的富含碳的土壤。這個古老的永久凍土層儲存了數千年的碳——燃料。閃電通常首先點燃火災。燃燒泥炭的破壞性特別大，因為它產生的熱量會融化永久凍土並氧化下面的泥炭，釋放出破壞性的溫室氣體。燃燒泥炭釋放的碳是傳統野火的 100 多倍
Written by Irina Le
Earthetics 