Satellite watches as hazardous wildfire particles drift into the air

In May, satellites orbiting Earth watched hundreds of wildfires blaze across Canada and Mexico, the smoke from them so thick in some places that it obscured the water beneath. The news comes straight after scientists analyzed satellite images to see scorched land twice the size of Manhattan in Greece, which suffered its worst wildfire this year after being baked by consecutive heat waves. Researchers have concluded yet again that human-driven climate change is accelerating such extreme wildfires, disasters that have doubled in frequency and intensity over the past 20 years. More

(Source: Space.com - Aug 30)