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 This week we focused on extreme weather and extremely hot and cold weather affecting many regions and countries. The country I selected was Russia, it is a country known for its extreme temperatures. Russia is known for its climate ranging from steppes in the south to humid continental in much of European Russia, and subarctic Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north. Winters tend to vary from cool along the Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia. The country is bounded by plenty of mountains along the southern and eastern parts of its land. The west is often exposed to occasional winter incursions of milder Atlantic air, due to this the winters start to become more and more severe towards the eastern side of the country.  Throughout most of the year, seasons tend to vary from summer and winter-type weather, since the transitions from each season tend to happen so quickly. Due to climate changing rapidly throughout the world, places throughout Russia are affected as well. T...

This week's topic within the class has been Mass Wasting and how it affects different regions worldwide. Throughout the week we learned about Mass Wasting which is a set of events such as landslides, mudslides, and rockslides, typically shortly after these events especially with rain there tends to be massive flooding. Throughout Russia, the country as a whole is affected by 725 landslides yearly, some of the major cities affected are Moscow, Kazan, and Volgograd, to name a few of them. Due to present recordings and how the climate has been changing, it is reported that the duration of the period of mudflow danger on the northern slope will increase by 47-50 days on average. As well as the size of these mudflows growing as well, growing by more than 20-30% and the amounts of different matter will certainly rise too. As shown in the image you can see the amount of destruction. The landslide that caused damages to the World Cup stadium in Russia cost the country about $257 million to...