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Fire Led to Spike in Coastal Bacteria, Murky Waters

Scientists found water quality was degraded for months following a Southern California wildfire.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Cira, Marisol, et al. (2022) and using modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News Team.

Published March 3, 2022
Data acquired March 5 - November 30, 2018

Source:
Sentinel-2