Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.
Say that again? The Arctic on fire?
Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the flame will twice cross Siberia, once from west to east, then east to west.
Chronic wildfires across Siberia have forced birds to flock to the extreme west of Europe in search of sanctuary, it is claimed.
Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.
Damage from wave of floods already labelled 'catastrophic' with worse to come as Russian president Vladimir Putin demands: 'Put people first'.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.