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Using new satellite imaging techniques, scientist at NASA have found that previously unnoticed wildfires have done more to destroy the Amazon Rainforest than intentional deforestation. Known as "understory fires", these hidden wildfires burn on the ground below the dense Amazon canopy and were...

Google and Time Magazine have worked together to create a global database of zoomable, animated satellite views. Using satellite images from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, 30 years of change can be seen in a matter of seconds. An example like the amazon deforestation seen above quickly...