Question by chasvanblom: What is causing the AIR SITUATION in Moscow?
What is causing the air pollution problem that is hovering over Moscow, Russia?
Is this because of the HEAT, POLLUTION, or PEOPLEUTION at this time in that part of the world?
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Answer by Tara Timeless
One word: pollution. They have a declining population and despite it being the largest country in the world, it certaintly isn’t the largest population wise.
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INNA says
Well the current air situation in Moscow is due to the fires.
This year's summer is the hottest in the past 130 years and the temperature sometimes excels 40 Celsius or 104 Farenheit which is A LOT. Well maybe in other countries they would be fine with these temperatures, but what's distinct about Russia and the Moscow region is that Moscow is surrounded with peat fields.
Peat or turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter, and is a very important source of fuel. So you imagine Moscow surrounded by fuel in the ground, and if the temperature is so high the peat starts burning in flames. So all the forests light up, there are wildfires, flames, lots of smoke. Many villages burned down, many people were evacuated. The smoke released is also not healthy, because it is literally burned fuel, so it is really toxic. Moscow got filled with all this toxic smoke and that is why you might have seen people walking in the streets wearing masks. There are thousands of daily fires and it is just a natural disaster. There's literally no grass or trees left, everything has burned down with the heat and fire…
Usually Moscow's summer is filled with clear skies and there really isn't that much pollution, so it's really sunny and the skies light blue. But this year it's really an abnormality. Global warming is indeed happening.
Some pictures and further information if you'd like to see: http://englishrussia.com/2010/08/07/moscow-summer…
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/08/06/photos-ru…
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Hope I helped.
Jagermann says
Heat, smoke and fire all coincide with one another. California deals with it all of the time. They just aren't used to it over in Russia. It really isn't the end of the world or Moscow for that matter, trust me.
Alla says
HEAT!!!
I just came from Russia less then two weeks ago (I was in lenegradskaya, orlovskaya, and smolenskaya oblast [moscow]) and the temperature is barely bearable compared to last summer
Dmitry says
In the Moscow region about a hundred fires now!
Peat fire. And they are very difficult to extinguish, and they produce a lot of smoke.
Captain Matt says
If you're referencing some form of long term pollution then i have no idea, but i assume you are talking about the massive ash clouds that are currently choking moscow, stopping flights and forcing people to stay indoors.
Russia is currently experiencing one of the hottest summers in years, and this has caused quite a few forest fires. They are fairly out of control, and are thus sending a lot of smoke and ash into the air. It's as simple as that.
Once they get the fires out it will disperse fairly quickly.