Satellites reveal Russian fires worst in 14 years

More wildfires have burned around the Russian capital this year than in the last decade and a half, according to sensors aboard ESA?s observation satellites. The forest and peat bog fires ignited this summer amid an unprecedented heat wave of up to 40�C.


Data from these sensors are compiled to create ESA?s ATSR World Fire Atlas which is available online to users within six hours. The atlas ? the longest worldwide fire record available ? also provides the time, date, longitude and l [...]

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