There's not much independent news coming out of Russia, and the Moscow Times itself was recently banned in Russia. But I've been noticing intense wildfire acti

There's not much independent news coming out of Russia, and the Moscow Times itself was recently banned in Russia. But I've been noticing intense wildfire activity in Siberia through the Nullschool Earth Weather Visualiser, e.g.: Particulates (PM1) <https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/15/0000Z/particulates/surface/level/annot=fires/overlay=pm1/orthographic=123.45,55.45,1728/loc=119.426,59.386 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/15/0000Z/particulates/...> CO (rapidly-attenuating signal of combustion): <https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/15/0000Z/chem/surface/level/annot=fires/overlay=cosc/orthographic=123.45,55.45,1728/loc=119.426,59.386 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/15/0000Z/chem/surface/...> NO2 (more slowly-attenuating combustion signal): <https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/15/0000Z/chem/surface/level/annot=fires/overlay=no2/orthographic=123.45,55.45,1728/loc=119.426,59.386 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/15/0000Z/chem/surface/...> Moscow Times confirms my suspicions. Canada's also seeing major wildfires, largely in British Columbia: Article: "Hundreds on evacuation alert as new wildfires sparked across B.C." <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/district-of-wells-evacuation-order-wildfire-1.7260423 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/district-of-...> (Jul 11, 2024) Particulates: <https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/16/2300Z/particulates/surface/level/annot=fires/overlay=pm1/orthographic=248.34,63.50,2519/loc=-118.382,61.410 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/07/16/2300Z/particulates/...> (All Nullschool views have fire signatures enabled in addition to the noted channel.)