Better management should prevent fire from raging out of control in one of Namibia’s most prized wildlife preserves.
Image of the Day Land
Authorities used helicopters to evacuate dozens of hikers and climbers from Yosemite National Park due to a fire burning in Little Yosemite Valley.
Image of the Day Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
This image of a fire in Victoria’s Wilson’s Promontory National Park was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on February 16.
Atmosphere Land Fires
Fires
A fire west of Fort Collins had burned more than 58,000 acres on June 19, 2012.
Smoke streams east from a fire in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in this true-color image from June 14, 2011.
Land Fires
The fires and resulting burn scars shown in these true-color images help maintain healthy savanna ecosystems in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
On May 2, 2013, the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this view of wildfires burning near Lassen Volcanic National Park.