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Nearly 300 Wildfires in Siberia Amid Record Warm Weather

Sakha, Russia

12 Jul 2020

Russia's Aerial Forest Protection Service is trying to suppress 136 fires over 43,000 hectares. Firefighters are using explosives to contain the fires and seeding clouds with silver iodide to encourage rain.

The Moscow Times

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