Satellites reveal Russian fires worst in 14 years

Monday, September 13, 2010 - 13:21 in Earth & Climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- More wildfires have burned around the Russian capital this year than in the last decade and a half, according to sensors aboard ESA's observation satellites. The forest and peat bog fires ignited this summer amid an unprecedented heat wave of up to 40C.

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