‘If We Don’t Have the Forest, We Don’t Have Life’ . More from the current forest fires in Yakutia. It has been the driest summer in the past 150 years and the fires smoke caused one of the world’s worst ever air pollution events. Scary to imagine that this extreme weather we experience right now all over the world might only be the beginning.. . @nytimes, @magnumphotos. Link in bio . . 1 Picture: Local volunteer forest fighters filling up a water truck at a pond before driving to a forest fire. 2. & 3. A forest fire that reached the the road between Magaras and Berdigestyakh, in Siberia, Russia.