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Fires have been burning across northeastern Australia’s Cape York Peninsula since mid-September. This image shows the actively burning fires marked in yellow on a true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite, captured on September 29, 2003.
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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Scientists say the seasonal crop fires are burning later in the day than in previous years.
Tens of thousands of people fled to safety as blazes spread throughout the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions.
Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.
