2010 – 2020. (Click image for wide, high-resolution view.) Scientists are using radar data to decipher where and how well landscapes recover in the years…
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A view of the Riverside Fire from La Dee Flats on the Mt. Hood National Forest on Sept. 9, 2020. The fire encompassed over 138,000…
A new study led by Swansea University reveals that only 10% of the forest that is left on two Indonesian islands remains fire-resistant. The researchers…
Smoke from the growing number of annual wildfires across the western United States and Australia has led to lengthy periods of unhealthy and hazardous air…
December 3, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Fire season in California generally peaks from May through October. But as global temperatures have risen, so…
Smoke rises from a fire burning deep in peat soils. Credit: Chris Lowie/USFWS Imperial College London researchers have simulated for the first time how soil…
October 22, 2020 On October 14, 2020, a small fire started north of Hot Sulphur Springs in north-central Colorado. Within ten days, the East Troublesome…
To mask or not to mask — and which mask to use? With public health guidance about masks in the United States confused by political…
NOAA/NASAs Suomi NPP satellite image shows a true-color image of the August Complex and other nearby fires. The August Complex is now the largest fire…
October 1, 2020. After a brief lull, a late-September heat wave reinvigorated California’s already brutal 2020 fire season. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)…
Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California – One of the Largest Fires on Record for Los Angeles County
Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California – One of the Largest Fires on Record for Los Angeles County
September 21, 2020. (Click image for high resolution version.) After burning more than 180 square miles (460 square kilometers) of the San Gabriel Mountains in…
In this image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on September 16, fires can be seen burning on the west coast of the US, with…
This map overlays the probability of burn severity in California’s northern coastal mountains, as forecasted in a UC Davis study, with burn perimeters of wildfires…
August 27, 2020 The Pantanal, a vast floodplain in South America, is among the largest wetlands in the world. The mosaic of grasslands, shrublands, forests,…
A NASA aircraft equipped with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) flew above California fires on September 3 and 10 to examine the ground…
This visualization shows a three-day average of carbon monoxide concentrations, from Sept. 6 to 14, in the atmosphere over California due to wildfires. Higher concentrations…
September 9, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Climate and fire scientists have long anticipated that fires in the U.S. West would grow larger, more…
September 9, 2020 Wildfires continue to rage in the western United States. On September 9, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra…
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds changing direction on September 6, 2020, when choking…
Danger Zone: NASA’s Terra Highlights Aerosols From U.S. Fires – Worst Since the “Big Blowup” of 1910
Danger Zone: NASA’s Terra Highlights Aerosols From U.S. Fires – Worst Since the “Big Blowup” of 1910
Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just added to the year’s woes.…