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Fascinating fire maps tracking the shifting patterns of wildfires across the world reveal a continuous pulse of flame around the globe.
The animation uses information from NASA satellites to show the annual shifts in the frequency and distribution of fires around the world over the past 12 years.
Flickering graphics highlight the locations of actively burning fires all over the globe on a monthly basis from 2000 up to 2012 – a year that has seen fires raging on Spain’s Costa Del Sol, and is on track to become the worst on record for wildfires in the U.S.
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2196710/Watch-flames-lick-round-world-global-trail-wildfires-past-12-years-revealed.html