Natural Hazards: Fire: Fires in Central South America

Hundreds of fires (locations marked in red) were burning in central South America on August 26, 2008, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Most of the burning was concentrated in Paraguay (image center), but fires extended northward into Bolivia and southward into Argentina as well. Large-scale burning like this is almost... [read full story]                    

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