Global warming leads to an increase in the number of wildfires in the Arctic zone of Russia, reported on the website of the all-Russian research Institute on problems of civil defense and emergency situations (VNII GOCHS).
In recent years, an increasing number of wildfires in the Northern parts of the Arctic zone of Russia, specified in the message. It is noted that in the current year first recorded forest fire in Yakutia, in the territory North of the Arctic circle.
"there has been an apparent shift in the center of the fire situation in the North of the country,"- it is told in the message.
The reason for this bias is primarily climate change, scientists say VNII GOCHS.
