Unprecedented Wildfires Caused by Climate Change

could lead to lasting changes in vegetation structure and composition, wildlife populations, soil erosion, and the benefits humans derive from these landscapes. The Amazon saw a significant uptick in the number of fires across Brazil, Bolivia and Peru (with ~9000 km2 burnt) in 2019 due to human-driven deforestation, logging and exploitation. It in itself is a cause for concern as there are fears that the interaction of deforestation, widespread use of fire for clearing and climate change are pushing this typically wet tropical ecosystem closer to an ecological tipping point, towards a degraded low-carbon savannah system10. It is vital for global sustainability as the Amazon forest is the world’s largest carbon sink, but its capture and storage of carbon dioxide has decreased over the past decades. As per the Moscow Times, a warming climate combined with a 150-year drought and high winds created the best conditions to turn the taiga forest into fire fuel. This prediction has also come true in the early spring of 2021. Fires are prevalent now, even in the coldest places like Yakutsk, Siberia. Temperatures over the year range between -44 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit in Yakutsk. This past summer, after arid and extremely hot weather patterns, the Saka-Yakutia region reached