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Researchers believe recent fire seasons give a taste of the more active wildfires of the future. Such fires are likely to increase air pollution, even as emissions from industry and motor vehicles have fallen in recent decades.


NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published August 23, 2016
Data acquired August 18, 2016

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Aqua > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response