This year's wild fire season is off to a blazing start.
Already in the US this year,
more than 29,000 fires have burned 2.6 million acres
and we're only in the middle of July.
Record breaking temperatures
and years of drought have left California ablaze.
The Amazon is as dry as it's been in 14 years
and smoke from wildfires in the Amazon can drift to southern Brazil,
changing air quality and potentially impacting the Rio Olympics.
At NASA we're using satellites,
air craft and ground measurements to track wildfires
and follow hot and dry conditions that lead to larger wildfires.
To learn more, follow us at nasa.gov/fires
or #EarthRightNow.
I'm Doug Morton, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
and we're on it.