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A composite natural color and infrared image of the wildfires near Alexandroupoli, Greece.

Satellite imagery captures wildfires breaking across Greece (photo)

By Stefanie Waldek published

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites are monitoring changes in the fire to aid civil protection and humanitarian response.

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Emperor penguins with chicks.

Satellites reveal catastrophic year for emperor penguins amid climate crisis in Antarctica (photos)

By Tereza Pultarova published

Satellite images reveal mass destruction of emperor penguin colonies in climate change-stricken Antarctica as sea ice melts underneath the birds' feet.

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A picture of the ocean on the Pacific coast in San Diego.

Odds of 'strong' El Niño now over 95%, with ocean temperatures to 'substantially exceed' last big warming event

By Sascha Pare published

Sizzling ocean temperatures in the east-central tropical Pacific throughout July indicate there is a good chance El Niño conditions will remain strong for the next six months.

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Layers of ice hanging off a glacier melt and drip water.

We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age

By Sascha Pare published

Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as they have when Earth's climate flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period.

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a map of Maui with Lahaina highlighted y a white box. A majority of the town is covered in flames.

Maui satellite photo shows full scale of deadliest US fire in more than a century

By Harry Baker published

The Landsat 8 satellite captured the deadly flames that burned through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii and killed at least 99 people.

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A huge plume of smoke spreading from several wildfires in Canada's Northwest Territories seen in an image taken by the European satellite Sentinel-2

Satellites watch wildfires rage across Canadian northwest (photos)

By Tereza Pultarova published

Satellite images reveal the scope of devastating wildfires in the Canadian northwest where an entire capital city had to be evacuated due to approaching flames.

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An aerial view of Hawaii, taken by the International Space Station camera.

Deadly wildfires in Hawaii seen from International Space Station (photo)

By Monisha Ravisetti published

Not only is the devastation being thoroughly documented around the world, but it's also being recorded from space.

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a map showing regions of heat across the globe. Almost all areas are highlighted in red, showing that temperatures are rising way quicker than they should be.

July 2023 was the hottest month on Earth since at least 1880 'by a longshot,' NASA says

By Monisha Ravisetti published

In the wake of Hawaii's tragic wildfires, NASA experts discuss our planet's critically rising temperatures.

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Image of the Hawaiian town of Lahaina taken by Earth-observation satellites of U.S. company Maxar Technologies before and after the devastating wildfires of August 2023.

Aftermath of Hawaii's deadly wildfire inferno revealed in gut-wrenching satellite images

By Tereza Pultarova published

The town of Lahaina on Hawaii's Maui island has been burnt to ashes by the devastating wildfire.

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The wing of an airplane hangs over the right side of the image, a dimmed sun shines behind brown smoke above a dark, mountainous landscape.

Wildfire smoke is warming the planet more than previously thought, scientists say

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A new kind of particle in wildfire smoke has shown to have the potential to warm the planet far more than previously thought, underscoring the need to update current climate models.

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