As California burns, this European spacetech firm could help predict the next wildfire
13 jan. 2025
09:50
Wildfires continue to worsen around the world, fuelled by the rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns associated with climate change. Amid this global conflagration, a Munich-based company will launch the next phase in its solution to monitor and predict wildfires from orbit.
The world is ever more on fire. At time of writing, the January 2025 California wildfires have seen 180,000 people evacuated from their homes and at least ten killed.
As climate change widens the fire seasons in California and Australia, experts have warned the two regions are unlikely to be able to share fire-fighting resources as they have in the past. In Brazil, around 22.38 million hectares of land were consumed in 2024, leading to massive biodiversity loss a...