Patagonia’s forests burned fiercely in February 2025, with wildfires destroying tens of thousands of hectares in Argentina.

The air quality index measures PM2.5, less than 2.5 microns particles, to determine the intensity of air pollution in cities.

In the days after the devastating wildfires, air monitors recorded some of the highest levels of air pollution in recent years, coinciding with a surge in hospital visits.

NASA, for example, uses its satellites to assess ... to more premature deaths than they expect from this case. The wildfire smoke thinned to a gray haze across Los Angeles County over the weekend ...

A satellite image shows smoke from a large fire near Ensenada, Mexico, January 23, 2025. NASA Earth Observatory The fires in Baja California closely resemble those in Los Angeles, underscoring the ...

A NASA Fire Information Resource Management System (FIRMS ... The reason then was also an exceptionally dry winter. When soot particles from wildfire smoke and air pollution are deposited on glaciers ...

The image was captured from the Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite 16 (GOES-16) and showed smoke from a wildfire in western Canada sweeping into New York and Pennsylvania on June 7, 2023.

Her expertise lies in atmospheric modeling, environmental analytics, big data and cloud computing—fields that intersect closely with wildfire behavior, smoke ... like NASA's MODIS and VIIRS ...

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with warnings shared over the risks of smoke and debris inhalation. More than 1,000 prisoners and 127 prison staff were working to contain the wildfires overnight, according to the California ...

The impressive display, which saw dozens of burning chunks of the giant spacecraft smear a colorful streak of smoke ... add fire suppression to that volume and…January 17, 2025 —NASA and ...