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   October 14, 2022 - Fires along the Parana River, Argentina   
      
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      Widespread fires continue to burn along the wetlands and floodplain of   
      Argentina’s Parana River through mid-October 2022, pouring heavy smoke   
      into the atmosphere. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of   
      dozens of active fires, some of which appear quite large, along the   
      thin course of the Parana River on October 13. Smoke from the fires is   
      blowing primarily southeast and extend beyond the city of Buenos Aries,   
      which can be seen as a large area of gray-brown pixels on the south   
      side of the muddy Rio de la Plata.   
      
      Fires sprung up along the Parana River as early as February of this   
      year, and by August local and international media published reports of   
      severe damage to the wetlands near the city of Rosario. On August 22,   
      Copernicus published an Image of the Day of the inferno. The caption   
      explained that the blazes, which ignited following a prolonged period   
      of drought and scarce rainfall, had burnt nearly 100,000 hectares of   
      land just in the previous two weeks.   
      
      On August 17, the Buenos Aries Times quoted the Deputy Environment   
      Minister as saying, “It is inevitable that setting fires in these   
      adverse weather conditions, with a drought that has lasted four years   
      and a strong drop in the Parana River, is criminal. Whoever sets fires   
      in these conditions cannot be unaware of the context in which they are   
      doing it.” Argentina had declared a water emergency on July 26, 2021,   
      after extended poor rainfalls led to the river’s lowest water flow in   
      78 years. In May 2022, that emergency was extended due to continued   
      lack of rainfall and low water levels. Light rain arrived in early   
      October, but not nearly enough to assuage the critical situation—or   
      douse the widespread fire activity.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 10/13/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (37.6 KB),  500m (146.6 KB),  250m (507.1   
      KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-10-14   
       
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