The Arctic is burning very strongly and the fire is so big that it can be seen from outer space

The fire reached 100,000 hectares, becoming one of the largest fires in the world. It is causing serious and extremely unpredictable consequences.

The Arctic, though in recent years, is gradually heating up, but is still one of the coldest places on the planet anyway with all the ice around. The thing is, when I just went through the last 6 months of the record, . can you believe it, the Arctic is really on fire literally.

In areas from Greenland through Siberia and Alaska, fires are spreading, pushing huge columns of smoke throughout the northern hemisphere's area, creating a suffocating atmosphere.

Picture 1 of The Arctic is burning very strongly and the fire is so big that it can be seen from outer space

The Arctic is literally fiery.

Reportedly, the story takes place from the beginning of June, when there were more than 100 fires erupted and burned the heaps of shrubs around the Arctic belt. In Russia, 11 of the 49 regions are currently submerged in fire. With an unusually hot and dry summer, even the Greenland icy island is currently on fire for several days. And know what, that flame can even be seen from the universe, through the satellite system .

Picture 2 of The Arctic is burning very strongly and the fire is so big that it can be seen from outer space

Photos from NASA Worldview, published by Pierre Marksue.

In fact, the Arctic is not too rare to fire, because it has a quite rich shrub system. In addition, there are many areas of frozen water here that trap methane inside, so if you can handle it, you can create fiery ice.

However, in recent years, things are getting worse as a result of climate change . Currently, the number of fires with extreme intensity is very large.

According to Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer from the London School of Economics, this year's fire intensity has never been seen in a total of 16 years of collecting data from satellites. Fires are gradually reaching carbon stocks, and can make the climate process more intense.

Picture 3 of The Arctic is burning very strongly and the fire is so big that it can be seen from outer space

Fire can cause the climate process to warm up more strongly.

"This is one of the biggest fires on the planet, even more than 100,000 hectares," Smith said.

"The amount of CO2 emitted from the Arctic belt in June 2019 is greater than what is discharged from the ENTIRE fires in the period from 2010 to 2018".

Even unburnt areas are suffering. According to NASA's Earth Observation Station, there is a huge column of smoke covering Russia, causing the air quality in major cities to deteriorate.

Experts judged that without a preventive move, the consequences of these fires would be terrible, especially for the current climate change process.

Update 28 July 2019
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