More Than 7 Million Acres Of Siberia Are Burning (Forest & Tundra); Toxic Mudflows At Lake Baikal

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Smoke rises from wildfires in Yakutia, Russia, on 29 July 2019. Photo: Ulus Media

A series of natural disasters are hitting Siberia, with the latest a dire threat from severe flooding to Baikal – the oldest and deepest lake in the worth, containing 20% of the planet’s unfrozen freshwater. The alert concerns flooding in Baikalsk – where evacuation has begun – and concerns that toxic mudflows can dump poisonous sludge from a former pulp and paper mill into the lake’s pristine maters.

Pools of liquid sludge containing lignin poses a huge threat to the life in Baikal with warnings of an ‘ecological catastrophe’. ‘We can only pray now,” said one campaigner pointing to a risk of a dam burst on the Solzana River where a bridge had been swept away already. […]



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Out-of-control infernos are destroying permafrost by burning the tundra both north and south of the Arctic Circle. Elsewhere centuries-old boreal forests of cedar, pine and larch - known as the lungs of the Northern Hemisphere - are turning to ashes. Concern in rising over health risks with locals complaining they are living in a “gas chamber”, while wild animals are “fried alive”. Worst hit is Yakutia where 1.8 million hectares are now ablaze. Here the tundra is aflame on both sides on both sides of the Arctic Circle.



Famous Mir mine in thew city of Mirny, Yakutia, in normal weather and covered witrh the smoke.

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https://www.siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/fire-and-flood-apocalypse-with-wildfires-raging-and-dire-threat-to-baikal-worlds-deepest-lake/

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1. Why is this not well covered in the news???

Read this article. Photos show devastation. Really terrible.

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2. More Than 7 Million Acres equals more than 10,940 square miles equals 104 miles X 104 miles

(if it was a square - just to give an idea of the size). That's a lot!

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3. Kick and recommend. This is very bad. N/t

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