A moth outbreak has killed off forests across Siberia, now the flammable wood is causing wildfires

A tiny but destructive pest, the Siberian silk moth, has spent years chewing through tree needles across Siberia, leaving behind vast stretches of dead, dry timber. Times of India reports that this die-off — the result of major outbreaks recurring over decades and wiping out millions of hectares — has now collided with an urgent wildfire emergency, with all that dead wood acting as ready fuel.

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