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Satellite view of the wildfires 500km northeast of Yakutsk, pictures courtesy @tonyveco #wildfires2020Russia
So-called ‘Zombie fires’ - named so because of peat getting reignited days after it was seemingly extinguished - return to the extreme north of Yakutia. It took 64 people to fight this fire by the village of Ebyakh above the Arctic circle, and it’s back to full force again
More than 400 people are surrounded by fire in the village of Svatay in the extreme north of Yakutia, with flames reaching as close to the houses as 500-700 metres. On the #Sentinel3 image of Svatay provided by
@tonyveco colours are enhanced with vegetation shown red
March Aurora +starry skies over the Putorana plateau in the heart of Siberia, all pictures by Dmitry Boldyrev
Giant sauropods lived in polar conditions in world’s coldest region, say scientists. Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle https://t.co/KIoGUQiKyZ
Three times as old as Egyptian pyramids, the Shigir Idol originally stood tall beside a paleo-lake. Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later https://t.co/m4Av92knmc
Life on top of the world... Yamal peninsula in pictures by Sergey Anisimov
Yergaki (Ergaki) National Park, Western Sayan Mountains, southern Siberia. All pictures by photographer Andrey Grachev