“Boreal forests could be a time bomb of carbon, ... region experienced particularly bad wildfires in 2021 which burned nearly 45 million acres (18.16 million hectares) of Russian forest in 2021.

Far to the east and a few decades earlier, Russian artist Ivan Shishkin drew Wind Fallen Trees (1888) in charcoal, and Finland’s Akseli Gallen-Kallela painted the icy Mantykoski Waterfall (1892-94).

While some wildlife thrive when the boreal forest burns, experts say climate change and human activity have led to larger, more intense wildfires, exacerbating the negative effects on some species.

As a result, Russia’s half of the global boreal forests — a jade halo of conifers that spans 15mn square kilometres across northern latitudes of Eurasia and North America — is quickly ...

Two years ago, enormous fires ripped through some 46 million acres of forest in Russia, the country’s worst fire season on record.The scale of tree cover loss in the massive boreal, or northern ...

Boreal forests are one of the fastest warming biomes on Earth, and warmer and drier fire seasons are contributing to expanding wildfires. ... (18.16 million hectares) of Russian forest in 2021.

By Jack Guy, CNN The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution ...

By Jack Guy, CNN The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution ...