INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The rate of forest destruction caused by wildfires in Russia's northern latitudes more than tripled between 2012 and 2021 compared to the
previous decade, according to a new study by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).Using satellite data,
researchers calculated the extent of woodland devastation due to wildfires in areas above 60 degrees latitude between 2002 and 2021,
seasons in 2020 and 2021.The rate of destruction was especially dramatic in Russia's Arctic region, with researchers noting a more than
forests were ravaged by wildfires each year over that same period, or about 0.2% of the total forest coverage in the northernmost
