Unprecedented wildfires burn in the Arctic during heatwave

The Arctic Circle is suffering from an unprecedented number of wildfires in the latest sign of a climate crisis. With some blazes the size of 100,000 football pitches, vast areas in Siberia, Alaska and Greenland are engulfed in flames. The World Meteorological Organisation has said these fires emitted as much carbon dioxide in a month as the whole of Sweden does in a year Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► The world is literally on fire – so why is it business as usual f