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Canada invests $72 million on satellite constellation to monitor active wildfires
Canada is investing $72 million on a novel satellite constellation that will monitor active forest fires across the country.
What Canada's first publicly-built wildfire satellites could mean for the Yukon
NASA satellites have helped with early wildfire detection. Now that those satellites are at the end of their life, the ...
Shocking Satellite Images Reveal Patagonia’s Wildfire Crisis in Unprecedented Detail
Patagonia’s forests burned fiercely in February 2025, with wildfires destroying tens of thousands of hectares in Argentina.
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Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning
Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...
Canada is turning to space technology to help fight wildfires
The Canadian Space Agency is developing a way to track wildfires from orbit. The federal government is investing $72 million ...
Wildland fires are unpredictable—spaceborne lidar is helping reduce that uncertainty
Recent wildfires are larger and more intense than they've ever been in the historical record. If you've been watching the news at any point in the last decade, that's no surprise.
Researchers: Earth's atmospheric CO2 level logs record year-on-year rise in 2024
Researchers in Japan say satellite data show that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere in 2024 ...