NASA Confirms: Amazon Fires Worst Since 2010, 2019 May End Up Worst Year On Record
As raging fires continue to sweep through the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, NASA satellites and astronauts aboard the International Space Station are tracking the flames from above. Their view confirmed that this is the most active fire year in Brazil since 2010.
Fire detections by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite have been the highest since the year 2010 so far, with indications that 2019 may hit a record number of fires in the Amazon. NASA has been using MODIS sensors to detect thermal anomalies all over the world since 2003.
The timing and location of MODIS’ fire detections during this year’s dry season in the rainforest are more consistent with land clearing than regional drought, Douglas Morton, chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement by NASA.
“MODIS detections are higher in 2019 than at this time last year in all seven states that comprise the Brazilian Amazon,” Morton added.
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