well let's bring in christina schadler she's a research professor at northern arizona university she's also the lead coordinator of the permafrost carbon network a group set up to address the issue of carbon release from plymouth rock scene is good to have you on the show i want to start with a recent occurrence tundra fires in russia tell me what's happening there so we have seen increased fire activity in the arctic and her last year is any particular summer and this is because temperatures are a lot more more than they usually are and conditions are really dried which. can enhance wildfires and. increase fire activity is a problem because we've all so we've always had fires in the arctic and this is nothing new but right now the fires are much larger and they're more widespread and they're much more intense and he fires are really tense and you can burn through the top layer and burn through the organic material which will then degrade from a frost and once you have come across thawing that creates a whole other issue and will it release a lot of carbon emissions to the atmosphere a