Last July, a combination of lightning, dry weather and unusual heat fuelled hundreds of wildland fires in northern Canada. According to federal authorities, 136 fires were burning in the Yukon and 65 in NWT (pictured above) on 6 July, the date this image was taken...
Satellite image (Terra/MODIS) of Alaska on July 9, 2019. The red dots indicate wildfires with smoke drifting across the Bering Strait. Image: NASA In recent years, there have been numerous large-scale wildfires in the Arctic regions of Russia, Canada and the USA,...