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The mystery of Siberia's strange exploding craters may have finally been solved
The explosions, which can be heard miles away, create huge craters in the Siberian north, and no on…
Marianne Guenot
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Siberia is on fire like never before, leaving Russia to fend off one too many hotspots
Russia is already one of the world’s worst-affected coronavirus hotspots and now it has another —…
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The Arctic is getting so hot again— scientists expect zombie fires to return
A normal person may not see what’s burning inside the ground and there’s a good chance that …
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At least 52 people are dead after a Russian coal mine fire in Siberia — the deadliest in over a decade
At least 46 miners and 6 rescue personnel were killed at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine. 49 others wer…
Hilary Brueck
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'Zombie' fires smoldered beneath Arctic ice all winter then reignited, causing one of the region's worst fire seasons in history
High temperatures are exacerbating 'zombie' wildfires in the Arctic circle — fires that smolder und…
Susie Neilson
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Extreme weather is sweeping the world, with devastating floods and wildfires on 3 continents at once
Oregon, Siberia, and western Canada are fighting huge fires, while parts of China and western Europ…
Sinéad Baker
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Wildfires in California and Siberia are throwing soot into the high atmosphere that's landing in the Arctic and melting polar ice
Scientists are working to understand the impact of this effect on the Arctic's ice yearly renewal a…
Marianne Guenot
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Someone in Russia broke into a military airfield to set fire to a bomber jet, and Russian cops only found out it was happening on social media: report
The local authorities found a scorched Su-24 on the tarmac after seeing videos of the burning aircr…
Matthew Loh
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Trump offered to help Putin put out the wildfires ravaging Siberia
7.4 million acres of Siberian woodland - a patch of land equivalent to the size of Maryland - has s…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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'Zombie fires' smolder under the snow during the winter then rise from the dead come spring. They may get far more common.
A study suggests "zombie fires" that don't get extinguished in the winter may become more common in…
Aylin Woodward
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A Russian soldier shot dead 8 colleagues and injured 2 others at a military base in Siberia
"At 6:20 p.m. local time on October 25, a serviceman of the repair and maintenance base stationed o…
Will Martin
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Wildfires are burning from the the Amazon to the Arctic — Here's why you should be worried
The Amazon rainforest has been dubbed the ‘lungs of the planet’ since its innate vastness …
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WATCH: Video shows the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse lighting up the sky across the world
In the Northern Hemisphere, people saw a "ring of fire" solar eclipse on Thursday as the moon passe…
Samara Abramson
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The Amazon Rainforest is burning. Here's why there are so many fires and what it all means for the planet.
Scientists also fear that over time, the Amazon could suffer so much deforestation that a feedback …
Aylin Woodward
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An astronaut in space photographed the giant smoke plume from Australia's fires. Nearly 70% of the country is covered in haze.
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison's administration, however, has said it doesn't plan to fur…
Holly Secon
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Rising global temperatures are creating bubbling, methane lakes you can light on fire
They're actually remnants from the last Ice Age. Around 11,000 years ago these areas used to be fro…
David Anderson,Chia-Yi Hou
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The northernmost reaches of the Earth are on fire. Here's what this record-breaking hot summer looks like from space.
Hot and dry conditions in the Northern Hemisphere are a consequence of this unprecedented warming. …
Aylin Woodward
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The California power outages show how dire the wildfire crisis has gotten - 9 of the state's 10 biggest fires came in the last 16 years
According to Witter, one example of that dynamic was the Woolsey fire, which burned more than 1,600…
Aylin Woodward
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Photos show the scale of a huge shopping mall fire that killed 56 people in Russia
Russian authorities have confirmed the deaths of 56 people as of Monday morning, and said that arou…
Kieran Corcoran
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An 8,000-year-old fort defies expectations, showing that Stone Age societies built protective structures far earlier than we thought
An 8,000-year-old settlement in Siberia had ditches, stakes, and other protections rarely seen in h…