NASA Sees Intense Fires around the World

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This year’s wildfire season is off to a blazing start. The United States had an early start to the season, with more than 29,000 wildfires burning more than 2.6 million acres of land. The driest season in 14 years has left the southern Amazon primed for heavy wildfire activity as well.

The expected wildfire surge in the Amazon this summer is the result of El Niño, a warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean that had major impacts on weather across the United States the first half of 2016. While El Niño has officially ended, we’re still feeling effects through increased wildfire activity.

In some parts of the U.S., the fire season is now on average 78 days longer than it was in 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. NASA scientists are able to monitor these wildfires better than ever before, providing valuable information that fire managers can use to prepare the public. Using data collected by satellites, planes and on the ground, NASA is tracking wildfires around the world and keeping an eye on the hot, dry conditions that contribute to larger fires

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann

Music: Perimeter Fence by Lennert Busch

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We're like the frog being slowly boiled in a teapot.

AngryKittens
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NASA: Your planet is changing. We did it!

angelwhite
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Making a documentary re. wildfire and debris flow in Montecito, CA. How can I contact team that created this video?

DonnaChristineMcGuire
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Great work, NASA team! Thanks for keeping an eye on our planet. I really hope earth doesn't get too hot some day where it becomes inhabitable. But I think that may happen.

markbravaco
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Keep doing the great work. I fear we harm our planet by managing forests the wrong way all around the world.

VR_Wizard
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Tell me about it. I live in LA County, and we have had adverse effects on air quality from the Sand Fire near Santa Clarita.

harryandruschak
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How about do something about the drought in addition to studying it?

CrysisEnthusiast
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Well Jesus will be back soon bc this is the second cleansing of the earth first comes the flood a few thousand years ago and now fire... I hope ppl have there hearts in the right place :)

Ali_Landry
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crooks gonna make loads of money on new plantations they will establish in place of burnt forests

googol
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este vídeo no me gusta !!!! es tendencioso !!! no exhibe los efectos de los bombardeos en medio oriente !!! tampoco muestra el efecto de las fábricas ni de las refinerías de petróleo ni de las concentradoras de minerales ... tampoco muestra el efecto de la emisión de gases de todos los vehículos del planeta !!!! 😣

adolfotapiagallardo
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O Brasil podia ser tão influente para a melhora do mundo, com Bio diversidade, rios, e culturas, mas ao contrario disso, com essa ganancia de poder e dinheiro, esse sistema politico, crimes, só estamos ajudando a destruir ainda mais este planeta.
É como eu li hoje de manhã no Facebook : "Este planeta deve ser o inferno de outro Planeta"

FabioAlmeida_
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когда ты учишь японский и не знаешь что написано на видео :-[

Rem_u