With Russia on Covid-19 lockdown, 77 houses were burned down in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions.
Flood on Seyba River at gold mining facility leads to major emergency after accident near Shchetinkino village.
Blame for pollution is focused on failure of coal plant to filter emissions.
The stormy wind at 30 metres per second rose in Chita in the afternoon on Wednesday 13 May.
Some 784,931 hectares of wildfires are raging on permafrost zones including the Arctic in Yakutia - officially Sakha Republic - and the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, causing possibly irreparable damage to the tundra. Other infernos are sweeping through boreal forests which are known as the lungs of the Northern Hemisphere.
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
The locals call it Black Sky, a combination of weather conditions and the exhaust from dozens of factories in this industrial city on the Yenisei river.
State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.
This time weather experts think the blackout was caused by smoke from wildfires mixing with heavy rain clouds.
Changes in traditional diet and lifestyle of native ethnic groups in the Yamalo-Nenets region have brought the first cases of obesity. Change in wildlife routes and climate are among factors causing diets to change.
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