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Fighting Fire With Fire
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In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the…

Jun 5, 2026
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NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety
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With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers…

May 27, 2026
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NASA Demonstrates New Prescribed Burn Capability for Spaceport 
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Anyone who has seen a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida knows the agency’s pursuit of the stars…

Apr 29, 2026
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Fire Effects from the 2023 Drought and Extreme Wildfire Season 
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A Michigan Tech field team of five arrived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on July 27, 2025, for a nine-day field…

Feb 5, 2026
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NASA Demonstrates New Wildland Fire Airspace Management System
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Editor’s Note: This article was updated March 27, 2025, to reflect the final dates for the testing period. NASA researchers…

Mar 25, 2025
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The Synoptic View of California’s Camp Fire: A Scorching Reality of Today’s Fires
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As 2018 closed, Discover Magazine blogger Tom Yulsman posted to his ImaGeo blog about the most gripping image he’d seen during the year. The…

Feb 19, 2019
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Fire and recovery in Yellowstone National Park, U.S.
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The 1988 image shows scars left by a wildfire that consumed 1.2 million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park…

Aug 17, 2016
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350 Complex Fire and Anderson Creek Fire, Oklahoma and Kansas
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On April 5, 2016, four fires sparked by downed power lines merged and burned almost 57,500 acres near Freedom, OK,…

Jun 21, 2016
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