Caption by Adam Voiland12 July 2012 As in the western United States and northern Canada, Russia is ablaze. On 11 July 2012, more than 25,000 hectares (97 square miles) of forests were burning, according to the Russian Federal Forestry Agency. Most of the fires—uncontrolled wildfires in boreal forests—were in central and eastern Siberia. Fires had […]
By Dr. Jon Ranson9 July 2012 […] The flight delays were caused by smoke from a large number of forest fires that are burning across central Russia. Coming from St. Petersburg to Krasnoyarsk on July 6, we were high-flying witnesses to a smoky scene. At 33,000 feet, our airspace was smoke-free. But a thick blanket […]
11 July 2012, Canadian Press – Smoke lingering over much of British Columbia from Siberian wildfires has pushed ozone levels in parts of the province to never-before-seen numbers. By Monday, ozone levels reached 84 parts per billion in the central Interior region, about three times the average for July. B.C. Ministry of Environment air-quality meteorologist […]
Caption by Adam Voiland10 July 2012 More than 30 taiga wildfires burned in the Far East of Russia on 10 July 2012. According to the ITAR-TASS news agency, the fires had burned more than 2,200 hectares (9 square miles) in Yakutia and 2,000 hectares in Khabarovsk Territory. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s […]
Prince George, B.C., 9 July 2012 – The bluish haze that has settled over the City is not the result of any local pollution. It is smoke from a forest fire, but not one that is raging in B.C. and, despite what you might think, it isn’t smoke that is being pushed north from the […]
By WASBIR HUSSAIN, Associated Press8 July 2012 GAUHATI, India (AP) – The death toll has risen to 121 as damage mounts from monsoon floods that devastated the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Villagers are still finding bodies in receding waters. On Sunday the death toll stood at 121, including 16 buried in mudslides. About half […]
Caption by Tassia Owen7 July 2012 Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo, was once a lush tropical landscape full of some of the most sought-after timber in the world. In recent years, a combination of logging and agriculture has contributed to a rapidly changing landscape. Forests are gradually being cleared and replaced by palm oil […]
By Patrick Evans 6 July 2012 Chernobyl, Ukraine (BBC) – Much of the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is pine forest, and some of it so badly contaminated that a forest fire could create a devastating radioactive smoke cloud. Heading north from Kiev in Ukraine, you can see old ladies and their […]
MOSCOW (AP) – Intense flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia killed 103 people after torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water, forcing many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said Saturday. Many people were asleep when the flooding hit overnight in the Krasnodar […]
By Laura Betz, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center11 June 2012 Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation’s newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fires taking six days to reach America’s shores. Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite’s […]
