MSN: The night the North Sea burned: Piper Alpha, the world's largest oil disaster
The night the North Sea burned: Piper Alpha, the world's largest oil disaster
The sight confronting the Royal Air Force rescue team was absolute horror: isolated in the middle of the North Sea, the Piper Alpha—one of the world's most immense oil platforms—was completely ...
Fire is one of the four classical elements and has been used by humans in rituals, in agriculture for clearing land, for cooking, generating heat and light, for signaling, propulsion purposes, smelting, forging, incineration of waste, cremation, and as a weapon or mode of destruction.
NASA | LANCE | Fire Information for Resource Management System provides near real-time active fire data from MODIS and VIIRS to meet the needs of firefighters, scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.
This map shows fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from wildfires and other sources. It provides a public resource of information to best prepare and manage wildfire season. Developed in a joint partnership between the EPA and USFS.
This page provides live weather information of active fire incidents as an interactive map. It also provides predicted smoke fallout from each fire, as well as live air quality data. We currently collect and showcase past and present fires from over 20+ cities. It was created underneath the Smart Cities Project, under the Good Systems Initiative in collaboration with The University of Texas at ...
View the latest fires from the last 48 hours on an interactive map, displaying the brightness and the event time. The information is provided by the NASA FIRMS - Active Fire Data.