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Jun 30, 2015|Map of the Week|1 minute

Map of the Week: NASA Fire Alerts Detect Eruption of Indonesia’s Raung Volcano

By James Anderson and Lisa Johnston While investigating forest and bush fires in Indonesia the GFW team stumbled across a surprisingly dense cluster of NASA fire alerts on the Global Forest Watch map in East Java, Indonesia. Turns out these fires weren’t for clearing forest and scrub land for agriculture. In fact, they weren’t human-caused […]