Smoke Blankets North America

A thick layer of smoke blankets large parts of North America, as also illustrated by the animation below based on images from July 15 to 18,...

More on Wildfires

Previous posts have highlighted the huge amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and soot being emitted as a result of wildfires. Apart from this...

Wildfires even more damaging

Wildfires cause even more damage than many climate models assume. Much has been written about the threat that wildfires pose to people's...

Wildfires in Canada affect the Arctic

created by Sam Carana with screenshot from  wunderground.com Wildfires can cause a lot of emissions. Obviously, when wood burns, carbon diox...

Dark Snow Project - Research into soot on Greenland

Fossil fuel combustion creates carbon emissions that increase atmospheric thickness, warming climate. The occurrence of wildfire increases w...

Turning forest waste into biochar

Too much biomass waste in tundra and boreal forests makes them prone to wildfires, especially when heatwaves strike. Furthermore, leaving bi...

Aviation Policies

The European Union's policy on Aviation Emissions From the start of 2012, the European Union (EU)  required its members to include emis...

Russia: 74 million acres burned through August 2012

NASA image, acquired September 11, 2012 From NASA Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79161 The summer of 2...

Greenland is melting at incredible rate

The combination-image below shows how much the ice on Greenland melted between July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). On July 8, about 40% of th...

Fires are raging again across Russia

NASA satellite image, acquired April 24, 2012   Back in April, thousands of hectares were burning when NASA captured above image of fires i...