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kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮

Satellite images from the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) show the immense size and amount of smoke of the wildfires currently raging north of #Athens, #Greece.

This is a huge tragedy, perhaps even worse than the #Evia fires of 2021 - because these forests are part of the “green lung” of Athens. Their destruction will strongly affect the city's climate.

firms2.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

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Screenshot: #NASA #FIRMS, used under the terms described at nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/ima

Screenshot of the NASA FIRMS website. It shows a satellite image of the Attic Peninsula in Greece with Athens near the centre. Red dots mark a large area north of the city that is currently burning. A huge plume of smoke is blown by northern winds over the city's eastern districts, Mount Hymettus, and the Saronic Gulf.
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Tim Mills

The second is maybe just interesting to me: Euboea is an old way of transcribing Εὔβοια, the name of the large Greek island where this variety of Greek was spoken and written. In my Masters degree in Edinburgh, I had a classmate, Evia. She is named for that island, and "Evia" is the modern transliteration of Εὔβοια.

So, in a way, she is named after a place that turned out to be a nursery for an early version of the Latin alphabet.

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#Euboea#Evia#Alphabets
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