Month: January 2020

Megafires, typically defined as covering more than 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares or 400 square kilometres), are accelerated by high temperatures and drought. By the close of 2019, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Russian Federation and the United States all experienced megafires on what many have called unprecedented scales...
St. Paul Island is one of the four Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. Nestled quite squarely between the Aleutian islands, mainland Alaska and Russia it makes for a very remote plateau of volcanic rock, fur seals, and roughly 500 residents. Enjoy this unique landscape through this video...