The Earth is on fire. That’s not news. But some forest fires are so big they can even be seen from space.
Astronaut Megan McArthur, who lives na International Space Station (ISS) since April, revealed the anguish of the crew when following, from above, the spreading fire. “We are very sad to see flames over large areas of the Earth, not just the United States,” he said in a recent link to the Insider website.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who often posts beautiful images from the vantage point of the ISS, recently posted some of the lamentable fire scenes on his Twitter account.
The fire is widespread in forests in the US, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Siberia and other regions. Many of the fires are spontaneous (wildfires), common during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, potentiated by hot weather, winds and dry vegetation — the same process that can happen in the Pantanal. But never before were they so intense or happened in so many places at the same time.
A clear mark of the climate crisis we are going through. Global warming has generated historic heat waves.
