Amazon Rainforest Fire From Space

Since january a staggering 121 000 fires have broken out across brazil and more than half of those fires are taking place in the amazon according to the country s national institute for space.

Amazon rainforest fire from space. Get breaking news delivered to your inbox the agency posted satellite photos of multiple fires tearing through the brazilian states. Forest fires in the amazon are generating smoke that can be seen from space and may have caused a daytime blackout more than 1 700 miles away in the country s largest city. Amazon rainforest fires rage in sobering views from space. Nasa shows amazon rainforest fires from space as environmentalists caution about impact on u s.

The devastation from the fires could affect rainfall patterns in the u s. The photo above taken on tuesday shows smoke and fires in the amazonas mato grosso and rondônia states of brazil. The amazon rainforest has been on fire for the past month and new images from nasa give a glimpse at what the devastation looks like from space. Satellites are tracking a record number of wildfires burning across brazil s rainforest.

Astronauts aboard the international space station are tracking the fires too sending back images of white smoke from the burning jungle streaming east over the atlantic pictures that would be. In the middle of the day. A chunk of the amazon rainforest has been ravaged by fires for weeks and the smoke from the infernos is so intense it can be seen from space. Brazil s amazon rainforest is burning and the fire can be seen from space.

As raging fires continue to sweep through the amazon rainforest in brazil nasa satellites and astronauts aboard the international space station are tracking the flames from above. Nasa captured images of forest fire plumes from space last week.