Forest fires change weather
NZPA-Reuter Peking The huge forest fires that burned for nearly a month in north-east China in May have changed the region’s weather, the New China News Agency said. Temperatures on the more than one million hectares of land devastated by the blazes are now higher than normal but vary more widely between day and night, the agency quoted a team of scientists as saying. The frost-free summer in the area on the Soviet border, which has extremely cold winters, will be shorter than usual, they said. “The scientists said etiological conditions would clearly be changed in the devastated areas,” the agency said. But the effects would not be longterm and timber output of the region would recover, it said. The fires, which killed 193 people and and made 50,000 homeless in the Daxinganling area, were allegedly started by negligent forestry workers. China’s Minister of Forestry, Mr Yang Zhong, and Vice-Minister, Mr Dong Zhiyong, were both sacked in June for poor management.
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