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The oil spill in the waters off China's Dalian harbor was only a fraction of the size of BP's in the Gulf of Mexico, but workers managed to clean it up in about 10 days. How did they do it? Full Article | Slideshow Breakingviews: China headed for 'Minamata moment' Russia declares emergency as wildfires kill 34 Digg This Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Russian patriarch prays for rain as wildfires rage Sun, Aug 1 2010 Wildfires spread in western Russia, kill 28 Sat, Jul 31 2010 Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25 Fri, Jul 30 2010 Heat damage to Russia crop past worst, official says Thu, Jul 29 2010 Sweltering heat breaks new record in Moscow Thu, Jul 29 2010 Related Topics World » Green Business » Russia » Related Video Wildfires beseige Russian city Fri, Jul 30 2010 Interactive graphic Reuters hurricane tracker 1 / 24 A firefighter works to extinguish fire in a pine forest outside Voronezh, August 2, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin By Sergei Karpukhin MASLOVKA | Mon Aug 2, 2010 9:55am EDT MASLOVKA Russia (Reuters) - Russia declared a state of emergency in seven regions on Monday after wildfires killed at least 34 people and left thousands homeless in the worst heatwave since records began 130 years ago. Fires raging across European Russia have destroyed homes, forests and fields, already scorched for weeks by an unprecedented heatwave. Drought in some regions of Russia, one of the world's biggest wheat exporters, has sent global prices soaring to 22-month highs and driven thousands of farmers to the brink of bankruptcy. Officials said firefighting manpower was increased ten fold near a nuclear research center in Sarov, Niznhy Novgorod region, one of the hardest-hit provinces, around 350 kilometers (220 miles) east of Moscow. Nearly 700 wildfires were burning over 1,210 square kilometers (750 square miles) of land, a spokeswoman for the Emergency Situations Ministry told Reuters. In the capital Moscow, residents wore masks against the choking smog caused by peat fires stoked by the hot weather. President Dmitry Medvedev declared a state of emergency in the Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Ryazan, Mordovia and Mari El regions as well as the province that rings the capital, the Kremlin said in a statement. The toll rose from 28 dead on Sunday to at least 34 on Monday, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said. He would not give details about the locations or specific cause of death for the new fatalities. More than 180,000 people were fighting the blazes and 18 aircraft dumped 3,000 tons of water on the fires and threatened areas on Sunday, the ministry said. Firefighters near Maslovka in the southern Voronezh province, where the temperature on Monday hit 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit), welcomed a respite from high winds that have fanned flames. FIRE NEARS NUCLEAR FACILITY Authorities dramatically stepped up firefighting manpower to fight blazes near a nuclear center in Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Interfax news agency quoted Emergencies Ministry official Pavel Plat as saying. The nuclear center, now a research facility, was a top-secret location in Soviet times codenamed Arzamas-16, where the first Soviet atom and hydrogen bombs were designed. A spokesman for state nuclear agency Rosatom, Sergei Novikov, told Ekho Moskvy radio the center was not currently in danger but said firefighters were on guard in case new blazes broke out on land south of the center. Thick smoke blanketing the area prevented Emergencies Ministry aircraft from dropping water on the flames. ITAR-TASS news agency reported that at least five civilian flights were canceled at Nizhny Novgorod airport because of the smoke. Smog returned to the capital after a hiatus over the weekend. 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