Aerosol Spread From Ferocious Australian Fires [Video]
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season…
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World Path of Smoke and Aerosols From Australian Fires Animated by Fleet of NASA Satellites
A fleet of NASA satellites working together has been analyzing the aerosols and smoke from the massive fires burning in Australia. The fires in Australia…
Australia: Like a Furnace – Incredible Satellite Images Reveal Ferocious Bushfires
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season…
Satellite View of Australian Fires Shows Severe Burn Scars Across Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass NASA’s Terra satellite provided before and after imagery that showed the extent of…
Stunning Satellite Images As Rain Brings Relief to Australia’s Fires
NASA satellite data continues to provide a look at the smoke and aerosols generated by the massive fires in Australia. Although rain fell on parts…
Big Increase in Pediatric ER Visits for Breathing Problems From Small San Diego Wildfire
2017 San Diego Wildfire Increased Pediatric ER Visits for Breathing Problems A small wildfire in San Diego County in 2017 resulted in a big uptick…
Satellite Imagery Shows Ferocious Fires in Australia Intensify
As the New Year starts, the outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim. These huge and disastrous fires continue to burn…
Wildfires Benefits Bats – Study Used Acoustic Surveying Technology to Track Echolocation Patterns
Fire plays important role for Sierra Nevada bats. Bats face many threats — from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as white-nose…
Black Carbon Found in the Amazon River – Most From Recent Forest Burnings
International study quantified and characterized charcoal and soot produced by incomplete burning of trees and transported by river to the Atlantic. Besides swathes of destroyed…
Amazon’s Burning Crisis: Deforestation and Number of Fires Show 2019 Not a ‘Normal’ Year
The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not ‘normal’ and large increases in deforestation could explain why, scientists show. The perceived…
Satellite Image Captures Bushfires Raging in Australia
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australia’s east coast. Around 150 fires are still burning in New South Wales and Queensland,…
NASA: Amazon Fires Were Fueled by Drought-Stressed Forest
A new satellite-based map of a section of the Amazon Basin reveals that at least some of the massive fires burning there this past summer…
NASA’s Terra Satellite Images California’s Kincade Fire Burn Scar From Space
Thousands of acres damaged by the ongoing Kincade Fire in Northern California’s Sonoma County are visible in this new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal…
NASA Satellite Image – Southern California’s Getty Fire Continues to Burn
NASA’s Terra satellite using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard captured this image of the Getty fire shortly after it began in the…
Latest Satellite Image Shows Devastating Kincaid Fire Continues to Spread in California
California’s devastating Kincaid Fire located in Sonoma County has grown to over 66,000 acres and NASA’s Terra satellite captured this dramatic image of the smoke…
NASA’s Terra Satellite Images the Destructive Kincaid Fire in Sonoma County, California
Update 10/28/19: There is a New Satellite Image of California’s Kincaid Fire. NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the Kincaid wildfire located in Northern…
Wrapping Buildings in Fire Blankets Can Protect Them From Wildfires
Existing blanket technology can protect an isolated building from a short wildfire attack, but technological advancements are needed for severe situations. Wrapping a building in…
Deeper Insight Into 2019 Fires From Satellite Study of Amazon Rainforest
Throughout August and early September 2019, media around the world have reported on the extensive forest fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Much of the concern…
