Sunday, February 9 2025

Month: June 2017

The May 5th 2017 ECO-X fire event as seen by PANDORA instruments

On 5th of May, at around 6 UTC, a blaze started at the ECO-X rubbish depot in Pomezia, a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Rome (41°41′N, 12°30′E). The fire was active for about two days and the cloud of smoke was visible from several kilometres away. Both the fire service and the local health

Chittagong, where ships go to die

Bangladesh is one of the largest ships breaking country in the world. This happens there because Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries, environmental standard are very low, and workers are very cheep and willing to risk their life every day for few dollars. In Bangladesh they break 150-200 ships per year. Like in an

Firebreaks over Portugal

Last Saturday Portugal has faced one of the biggest wildfire in its history. Hundreds of firefighters and more than 150 vehicles have been dispatched in order to counteract the flames spreading, fires that even after 24 hours were still churning across the forested hillsides of central Portugal, causing around 62 casualties. The largest part of

The River delta

Herodotus used for the first time the Greek letter “delta” to indicate the area with a particular triangular shape were the different branches of the Nile river deposits its load in the Mediterranean Sea. The extension of a delta may reach a surface of some hundred kilometers and a delta can be defined as the

Impact Craters on Earth, a deep space proof on our Planet

When we look at the Moon we can easily distinguish dozens of craters caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with its surface. The same happened on Earth’s surface mainly during its early history but very few people know that a similar event could happen again. 

Swimming in the Clouds

Clouds are visible bodies of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere. The origin of term “cloud” can be found in the old english clod or clud, meaning a hill or a mass of rock. Around the beginning of the 13th century the term cloud was then intended as a metaphor to include rain clouds as masses of evaporated water

Fire damage assessment using Sentinel-2, the Corsica case.

Wildfire season has just started for Mediterranean regions and considering the climate forecast projections for this summer, for the fire authorities it might not be very strait forward to face.