New
York Times: The burning forests, grasslands, and peat
fields in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine have been sending soot
into the atmosphere for days, endangering the health and lives
of people in huge areas of those countries. Now, as the
New York Times's Michael Schwirtz reports, the health
threat could be compounded as the fires reach areas that remain
contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster of 1986.
