NASA Explorers: A Year in Fire

We live in a “new normal.” Large fires burn in the Arctic, sending carbon around the globe. Fire seasons in the American West burn longer and hotter. To put it simply, warming temperatures are altering our planet and how it burns. NASA Explorers have been traveling all around Earth, learning more about fires and how they’re changing with the climate.This week, we’re taking a look back at how fires burned in 2019, and what that tells us about the reality we’re experiencing and what we can expect to see in the future.