August 20, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) After more than 10,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours, hundreds of wildfires erupted across California, particularly in…
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NASA’s Terra satellite image of clouds of smoke over California on August 19, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)…
August 14, 2020. (Click image for detailed view.) On August 18, 2020, several fires exploded across northern California and scorched thousands of acres. The Visible…
July 30 – August 6, 2020 Abnormally warm temperatures have spawned an intense fire season in eastern Siberia this summer. Satellite data show that fires…
August 2, 2020. (Click image for full, detailed view.) On August 2, 2020, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 (GOES-17) acquired this image of the…
July 17, 2020 (Click image for high-resolution version.) On July 17, 2020, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this natural-color image of…
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season…
(Click image for full view.) NASA’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument imaged areas burned by the Bighorn Fire north of Tucson,…
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bighorn Fire on June 22,…
(Click image for full view.) June 14, 2020 On the afternoon of June 13, 2020, a vehicle fire near the intersection of Bush Highway and…
Four large wildfires were captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 17, 2020 in this image. Three of them are in Arizona and one is…
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
Researchers have developed a deep-learning model that maps fuel moisture levels in fine detail across 12 western states, opening a door for better fire predictions.…
An example of boreal peatlands and forest in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Credit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University A group of 59 international scientists, led by researchers…
An outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on April 12, 2020, has…
This map shows the increase or decrease of the total burned area in 2019 compared to the 2001-2018 average. Credit: Lizundia-Loiola, J., Pettinari, M.L., &…
Flames rise from an experimental forest fire in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories. Credit: Stefan Doerr via Immageo, CC BY-ND 3.0 A new study shows that…
This image of the UV aerosol index from the Suomi NPP satellite OMPS Nadir Mapper instrument showing a “close-up” from January 13, 2020 (specifically orbit…
[embedded content] Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but…
VIIIRS Red-Green-Blue imagery provides a “true-color” view of the smoke. (Note that these images do not represent what a human would see from orbit. In…