Intense wildfires in western Canada have sent huge plumes of smoke sweeping across North America in recent days — pollution that has been captured in images by NASA satellites, aircraft and ...

The wrath of wildfires is something Canada knows all too well. After a historic season, 2024 is off to an active start with some fire forecasters saying this year’s wildfire threat could rival 2023.

Every summer, wildfires sweep across Canada’s boreal forest. In 2023 alone, a record 6,000 fires torched 15 million hectares of land. Increasingly, wildfire season brings increased smoke, ...

On Tuesday, NASA researchers performed their first wildfire test flight mission, using their new airspace management technology. In the beautiful Salinas foothills, NASA researchers based out of ...

Smoke blows off the Pacific Palisades fire of January 2025 in this satellite image. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory (Wanmei Liang)/NASA EOSDIS LANCE/GIBS/ESA This first phase of the FireSat ...