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The Astronaut View of Colorado Fires
The Consequences of Beetle Kill, Drought, and Climate Change
Look at this picture for a while. It shows a complex of fires going on southwest of where I live.
Plumes of smoke belie the existence of massive forest and wildfires in southwestern Colorado. Courtesy NASA.
These thick plumes are the last gasps of dead trees and drought-ridden vegetation that only needed one strike of lightning to get started. This is what the fires look like from space.
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