PhD students Sanna Piilo and Teemu Juselius, under the supervision of Minna Väliranta, investigated the soil at various sites on Spitsbergen and found an organic layer (dark), consisting mainly of moss remains, above mineral soil (gray layer) at all sampling sites....
The fires in the mostly remote areas of Siberia charred an area larger than Belgium. It was only thanks to satellite images that the authorities were able to identify which areas were burning, as many regions are in the middle of nowhere. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory...