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Heiner Kubny
Wildfires are increasingly sweeping across regions of the Arctic that were long considered too cold and too wet for large-scale fires.
Julia Hager
The number and intensity of wildfires currently raging north of the Arctic Circle are leading to high carbon emissions - the third highest for the Arctic in the month of June since 2003.
Global warming is increasingly causing droughts in the summer months in the Arctic, resulting in a higher frequency of overwintering wildfires.
In Siberia, temperatures reache up to 38 degrees Celsius. The Russian wilderness is experiencing an unprecedented extreme summer.
