Russia is fighting more than 190 forest fires in Siberia that have closed airports and roads, forced widespread evacuations and sent a pall of smoke across the North Pole. But it has abandoned dozens more fires covering thousands of square miles, with no effort to fight them.

Are the fires still burning in Siberia?

Siberia fires dwarfing all other combined fires

Catastrophic fires are still burning Yakutia, in the region of Irkutsk, in the southern Urals along with other regions of the country. 2021 could surpass Russia's worst fire year, 2012, Alexei Yaroshenko, forestry expert with Greenpeace Russia predicts.

Is there wildfires in Siberia?

The fires have released roughly as much carbon as Germany does in a year and sent plumes of smoke spilling over the North Pole.