{"id":796955,"date":"2025-06-26T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796955"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:05:04","slug":"esa-fire-and-deforestation-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796955","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Fire and deforestation linked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The combination of long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA\u2019s\u00a0Climate Change Initiative\u00a0is offering unprecedented insights into the South American Gran Chaco \u2013 one of the world\u2019s most endangered dry forest ecosystems. These advanced observations reveal, in striking detail, how fire is accelerating widespread deforestation across the region.\u00a0The animation shows high-resolution land cover and fire maps from satellites from1990 to 2019 over the Gran Chaco in South America. Notice the\u00a0clear and repeated pattern: deforestation regularly precedes fire in the same location one or two years later. The shapes and timing match with striking precision \u2013 suggesting a human influence.<br \/><b>Read full story<\/b>: Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transformation<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire and deforestation linked\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-R8m92umLjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/06\/Fire_and_deforestation_linked?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combination of long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA\u2019s\u00a0Climate Change Initiative\u00a0is offering unprecedented insights into the South American Gran Chaco \u2013 one of the world\u2019s most endangered dry forest ecosystems.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}