Fires
While the 2014 wildfire season has been active in California, the fires have not been particularly large or damaging.
Image of the Day Land Fires
Scientists have answered some important questions about how fires vary around the world and are changing over time.
Image of the Day Remote Sensing
One of the largest and most destructive fires raging across California over the weekend of July 4 was the Basin Fire, threatening Big Sur, and covering the coast in a thick blanket of smoke.
Land Fires
Plumes of smoke from several large fires streak across Northern Ireland in this image from May 2, 2011.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land
Hundreds of fires veiled northern Indochina in smoke as the traditional land-use burning season neared its peak.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Fires
Image of the Day Land Life
Dense smoke billows from two large fires burning in northern Mexico in this image, taken on April 9, 2011.
Atmosphere Land Fires
An arc of hundreds of individual fires wraps around the northern part of Cambodia, north of the Tônlé Sab lake, on February 9, 2009.
Land Life Fires Human Presence
The satellite-based atlas includes information about more than 13 million fires.
Strong winds fueled the Bar Complex Fire in Northern California on September 13, 2006.
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