Fires in central Africa cause pollution 'butterfly'
Friday, July 15, 2011 - 15:30
in Earth & Climate
Fires raging in central Africa are generating a high amount of pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite, with the ominous shape of a dark red butterfly in the skies over southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola.
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