Lightning Sparking More Boreal Forest Fires
June 26, 2017
June 26, 2017
PASADENA, Calif., June 26 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
A new NASA-funded study finds that lightning storms were the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and northern Canada, and that these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering northern landscapes.
The study, led by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of California, Irvine, examined the cause of the fires, which have . . .
A new NASA-funded study finds that lightning storms were the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and northern Canada, and that these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering northern landscapes.
The study, led by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of California, Irvine, examined the cause of the fires, which have . . .