South America is ablaze, with record-breaking fires burning even in typically moist ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest. Data on WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform shows that the number of fire alerts in the Amazon region are 79% higher than average for this time of year. 🌳 🔥 🧪
Data on WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform shows that the number of fire alerts in the Amazon region are 79% higher than average for this time of year.
Warm water from the Loop Current helped fuel #Helene#Florida’searthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15337...
Global crop mapping got a major update earlier this year, when IFPRI and Land & Carbon Lab produced a map for the year 2020 showing crop areas and yields for 46 different crops globally. Read more and explore the maps here: 🧪 #FoodStudies
An updated model called SPAM produces global maps of crop areas and yields that are pivotal for sustainable supply chains and food security.
If you think “Big Oil” has a hold on Washington, have you met “Big Ag”?
This week we are touching base with @NASAGoddard's PACE! It stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem, but if you want to learn more than that, you've got to listen to our new episode 👉 linktr.ee/WeatherGeeks
Some updated figures now that the August temperatures have been posted. First, how are things going w.r.t. expectations? 2024 is still somewhat consistent with an ENSO response, but the August anomaly is pushing it.
There have been 58,000 fire detections in Bolivia so far this year. That level of activity is unheard of in Brazil's Institute for Space Research record, which goes back to 1998. The level of drought and fire currently in South America is alarming. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15329...
Drought has amplified fire activity across the continent, contributing to exceptionally high carbon emissions in Bolivia and Brazil.
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Global temperatures have remained persistently high over the past few months despite fading El Nino conditions in the tropical Pacific. We saw records tied or set in May, June, July, and August. Its only in September 2024 that we are likely to move out of record territory:
