By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKYPublished: August 2, 2010 MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday declared a state of emergency in seven regions as forest and peat bog fires raged across Russia, killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless in a heat wave that has badly hurt Moscow and many other parts of the country. Moscow was […]
Smoke from the fires has swept as far as Moscow, cloaking the city in a veil of smog, 30 July 2010. BBC In pictures: Russia fires A burnt-out car sits in front of a destroyed house in the village of Mokhovoye, some 130 kilometers from Moscow on July 31, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of firefighters, […]
Associated PressJuly 30, 2010 Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country’s hottest summer on record. Video: Russia Mobilizes Army to Fight Deadly Fires Technorati Tags: forest fire,wildfire,Asia,drought,heat wave,global warming,climate change
By Katie Cassidy, Sky News OnlineSunday August 01, 2010 Firefighters in Russia are struggling to contain blazes sweeping across large swathes of the country. More than 214,000 acres of woodland and peat bog are burning and all of the army’s 300 firetrucks have been deployed to help local units. “There are thousands of small smouldering […]
UPDATE: Desdemona failed to notice that this story is from 1998 and thanks readers for the QA. BBCOctober 10, 1998 The scale of the damage caused by recent forest fires in Russia’s Far East amounts to a world-wide ecological disaster, a United Nations team has said. The Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, said the team was […]
Data on wildland fires in the United States show that the number of acres burned per fire has increased since the 1980s. In the western United States, both the frequency of large wildfires and the length of the fire season have increased substantially in recent decades, due primarily to earlier spring snowmelt and higher spring […]
By MANSUR MIROVALEV, The Associated Press. Associated Press writers Khristina Narizhnaya and Lynn Berry in Moscow and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed to this report. Fri, Jul. 30, 2010 MOSCOW – Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters. Prime Minister […]
During an historic heat wave and severe drought, more than 90,000 hectares (200,000 acres) are burning out of control. July has been the hottest month ever recorded in Moscow, fields and forests have dried up, and much of this season’s wheat harvest has been ruined. Fires and smoke in eastern Siberia, 30 July 2010, viewed […]
By Alfred Kueppers and Conor Humphries; editing by Matthew Jones/David StampFri Jul 30, 2010 6:57am EDT VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) – Forest fires swept across central Russia on Friday, killing at least eight people and forcing the evacuation of thousands during the hottest summer since records began 130 years ago. Fanned by strong winds, raging fires […]
By Gleb Bryanski, additional reporting by Alexei Anishchuk and Amie Ferris-Rotman; editing by Angus MacSwanTue Jul 27, 2010 5:37pm EDT NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) – A prominent scientist said hundreds of people could die as smog from peat fires blanketed a sweltering Moscow for a second day on Tuesday. Moscow region chief Boris Gromov asked Prime […]
