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Drought Fuels Wildfires in the Amazon

With an El Niño brewing in the Pacific, uncontrolled fires are burning beneath the canopy in some parts of the rainforest.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 19, 2023
Data acquired October 11, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Applied Sciences