Siberian Wildfire Larger Than , All Other Current Wildfires Combined.<br />ABC News reports that massive wildfires burning across Siberia are larger than all of the fires raging this summer around the world combined.<br />The widespread fires around the globe have been attributed to extreme heat waves and record droughts scientists have linked to climate change. .<br />In Yakutia, 3,000 miles east of Moscow, fires <br />have been burning since late spring and are <br />already among the largest ever recorded.<br />In Yakutia, 3,000 miles east of Moscow, fires <br />have been burning since late spring and are <br />already among the largest ever recorded.<br />According to ABC News, local authorities say they have only a fraction of the manpower and equipment necessary to combat the spreading inferno.<br />A state of emergency has been declared <br />in Yakutia over the fires that local authorities <br />estimate now cover around 3.7 million acres.<br />Last year, the region saw record temperatures, <br />including the highest temperature <br />ever recorded in the Arctic.<br />Greenpeace Russia estimates the fires have burned around <br />62,000 square miles and are now larger than the wildfires <br />in Greece, Turkey, Canada and the United States combined.<br />Concerns related to the widespread <br />fires go far beyond Russia.<br />According to the European Union's Copernicus satellite monitoring unit, Yakutia’s fires have already produced a record amount of carbon emissions.<br />The 505 megatons of emissions released <br />since June are greater than Britain’s entire <br />carbon dioxide emissions in 2019
