While the world is facing the Covid-19 emergency, in Chernobyl exclusion zone on 4 April an arson fire is spreading fast becoming one of the biggest ever. More than 400 firefighters struggled for 10 days to tame the flames by working under extreme conditions, often without adequate protection. constantly inhaling, radioactive particles. The fire destroyed forever many cultural and tourist sites in the area such as the Emerald summer camp, giving a serious blow to tourism in this area, already severely tested by the restrictions imposed by Covid-19. The fire touched the nuclear power plant and the nearby radioactive waste disposal site. If it got there, there’d be another Chernobyl.

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L'articolo Chernobyl: The Fallout proviene da InsideOver.

At the end of December 2019 and the beginning of January 2020 the wave of wildfires in Australia that in the previous few months had hit the country in an extremely dry and torrid southern summer worsened enormously.

A veritable firestorm devastated wide areas of the bush, the traditional rural landscape of Australia with its shrub, bushes and small and medium-sized vegetation. Although the wildfires had more or less been raging continuously from June onwards it was not until the beginning of the Australian summer that the wildfire problem degenerated into a national emergency.

L'articolo Wildfires in Australia: what really happened proviene da InsideOver.