Globally, the Rise of Agriculture is Squashing Some Fires (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Animation of the monthly burned area percent shown in the Robinson projection with a colorbar and date overlay. Stills of this video can be found here: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4407. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 June 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Andela at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and colleagues was titled, "A human-driven decline in global burned area."

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC). The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)

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