Los autores de un reciente estudio utilizaron sensores ubicados en satélites para identificar los incendios “más extremos” de todo el mundo y observaron que son cada vez más intensos.
- Tenured Scientist (IMB-CSIC, Spain) & Honorary Associate Prof. (SU, UK), Swansea University
Satellites used satellite sensors to identify the 0.01% ‘most extreme’ fires worldwide.
La duración de la temporada de incendios ha aumentado en casi todas las regiones del mundo.
Fire weather reason – when wildfires are most likely to strike – has expanded almost everywhere.
Si bien puede tener consecuencias económicas y sociales negativas, el fuego es un proceso natural clave en la evolución de muchas especies y paisajes de todo el mundo.
Boreal forests store one-third of all terrestrial carbon - but for how long?
But humans can counteract global warming impacts by creating more fire-resilient societies.
Portugal’s wildfire has killed 64 people. Yet, as with Grenfell Tower in London, the risk of such a blaze was foreseeable.
Satellite images show smoke covering Russia for thousands of kilometres.
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