Fires and greenhouse effect
In the burning of forests carbon dioxide is released, both directly in the form of gas and indirectly, on the ecosystem and in the capacity to accumulate coal due to the fire.
According to Dr. Dean Graetz of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO ko) of Australia, fires are responsible for 40 percent of the greenhouse effect.
The World Fire Web project has been created by scientists from twelve territories to complete and update the map of fires that occur in the world. The map will be renewed daily by satellite images. In this way it is intended to obtain the documentation of the evolution of the general fire activity for the creation of a fire information system. Computers, in addition to fire locations, must be able to measure the burned surface. Fire maps will be updated on the following website: http://www.mtv.sai.jrc.it/projects/fire/wfw/wfw.html
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