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Satellite observations that detect and map fires provide important insight into the widespread nature of fire activity around the world. This visualization, which shows global satellite observations of fires in 2002 and 2003, goes on to focus on a region where fire plays a dominant role in the landscape: Southern California. The wildfires that roared through Southern California in the autumns of 2003 and 2007 were particularly fast-burning and destructive because people have actively suppressed fires in the region where residential development is expanding further and further into wild land areas.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Botany
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Provider Set:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Date Added:
- 04/01/2008
