Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites incidents in country formerly part of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact
Unplanned explosions at munitions sites
A map of unplanned explosions at munitions sites from 1979-2013. These stockpile explosions are often correlated with conflicts in the region, not as acts of war, but accidents due to storing weapons, often in preparation for some kind of military (or para-military) action. This is not a map of hazards, per se, but rather could be seen as a map of fear of the hazard of war. As the stockpiling of weapons is inherently dangerous, we can see in this map where that risk was worth the assumed protection of more weaponry, which ties into the Soviet era arms race as it relates to Civil Defense.
Small Arms Survey
2013
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CO emissions in 2010
2010 wildfires in Russia
Data retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. The gif depicts trace concentrations of carbon monoxide in the air at the time of the wildfires in Russia. The cloud of CO from the fires started over European Russia and stayed for a month, stretching over Russia into China.
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/featured-items/airs-observes-russian_fires
2010
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