The epicenter lay close to the river Podkamennaya Tunguska, an uninhabited area of swampy taiga forest that stays frozen for eight or nine months of the year. (scientificamerican.com)
A recent study of taiga wildfires in Alaska found that these forests are burning at the highest rate in at least the past 10,000 years, and climate change projections show even more wildfire activity may be to come as the northern climate continues to warm and precipitation patterns change. (climatecentral.org)
An idea of hope and a sense of the romantic — encapsulated in the authorisation of «now is right now», — a confident voice of a generation that can be witnessed in Taiga, the liveliest self - initiated, non-institutional open cultural project space in St. Petersburg. (egorkraft.com)