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Camille Lin
Nineteen days after it started, the fire on Amsterdam Island is still raging. After the shock, it was time for action.
The scientific station on Amsterdam Island was evacuated.
Dr. Michael Wenger
While soot and pollutants are transported from the south to the Arctic, substances bound in the permafrost are now being transported back to the south by the tundra fires.
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Australia has a long history of bushfires. The 2019-2020 Black Summer was the worst in recorded history. But was that the worst it could get?
Seventy-five million years ago, the Antarctic Peninsula was covered, not by ice, but by forests that often burned
A study shows that fires in the Russian Arctic and Siberia are due to changes in the Arctic climate.
The massive fires in the Arctic tundra, which have particularly affected Siberia, are intensifying the warming of the Arctic and causing even more and stronger fires.
Not only in Alaska, but also in the neighboring Canadian territories of Yukon and Northwest Territories, the tundra and numerous forest areas are burning.
A fire on the Australian Antarctic supply ship MPV Everest has crippled one of its two engine rooms, in the middle of the ship's voyage home.
Last year's massive fires, which survived like zombies in the tundra soils, could occur regularly.
