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Fire in the Xingu River Basin →
06.10.13 - Some parts of the Amazon do receive relentless rain, but other regions have a distinct dry season when little or no rain falls.
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Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Fire Risk
06.07.13 - Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years.
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Amazon Forest Fire Risk to Increase in 2013
06.07.13 - University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Infrared Image of California Powerhouse Fire from NASA ER-2
06.04.13 - The MASTER instrument aboard NASA's ER-2 high-altitude science aircraft captured this infrared image of the Powerhouse wildfire in the Angeles National Forest.
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Satellites See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season →
05.13.13 - New insights regarding a potentially volatile upcoming Southern California wildfire season come from NASA and Indian satellite data by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Chapman University.
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Mapping the Severity of California's Springs Fire from Space
Within a week, hundreds of firefighters had contained the fire, limiting damage to just 16 buildings. That may seem like the end of the story, but for Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams, the ...
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Satellite Animation Shows Smoke from California Fire
05.06.13 - A video of smoke from California’s Springs Fire was created by animating satellite imagery from NOAA’s GOES-15 satellite.
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NASA Imaging Sensor Prepares for Western Wildfire Season
04.11.13 - Airborne imaging technology developed at NASA and transferred to the Forest Service in 2012 is being tested to prepare for this year's wildfire season in the western U.S.
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Managing Fire in Etosha National Park →
04.10.13 - Park managers have redoubled their efforts to establish a preventative burning plan to minimize the likelihood of devastating fires.
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Keeping an Eye on the Fire at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia →
02.13.13 - Webcams on space telescopes captured an Australian bushfire in January 2013 near the campus of Siding Spring Observatory.
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How Widespread was the Australian Heatwave? →
01.23.13 - This NASA created map shows land surface temperature anomalies for Australia from January 1–8, 2013. The heatwave was responsible for the many wildfires Australia has endured this year.
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2012: A Extraordinary Year for U.S. Fires →
12.12.12 - Records maintained by the National Interagency Fire Center and NASA both indicate that 2012 was an extraordinary year for wildfires in the United States.
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Climate Models Project Increase in U.S. Wildfire Risk
12.04.12 - Scientists using NASA satellite data and climate models have projected drier conditions likely will cause increased fire activity across the United States in coming decades.
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Wildfires Light Up Western Australia
12.07.12 - Why does the western portion of Australia look so lit up in the new "Black Marble" imagery?
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Suomi NPP Captures Russian, African Fires' Smoke
08.28.12 - Powerful fires currently scorching parts of Russia and Africa sent up plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, observed by Suomi NPP.
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NASA Scientist: Climate Just One Factor in Wildfires →
07.03.12 - Climate change is one factor in the rash of western fires, but it's important to remember that natural shifts in climate have and will continue to provide a wild ride.
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Twelve Years of Fires →
07.25.12 - IDV Solutions made a map of major fires in the contiguous 48 United States from 2001 through early July 2012 using MODIS instrument data from NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites.
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Suomi NPP Sees Western U.S. Blazes
07.13.12 - These images show how two of the most destructive fires in Colorado and New Mexico history grew over a 24-hour time period from June 9 to June 10.
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When Wildfire Smoke and Thunderstorms Collide →
07.11.12 - A recent airborne campaign got an up-close look at what happens when wildfire smoke makes its way into a thunderstorm.
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NASA Measures Aerosols from Western Fires →
07.06.2012 - Wildfire smoke has affected large parts of the country, and aerosols have been especially thick over the Midwest.