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Wildfires as a Shared Arctic Variable
By Adriana Ford In 2021, another grim milestone for climate change was reported – smoke from wildfires had reached the North Pole. Whilst it can’t yet…
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Satellite data reveals extent of burnt areas in Europe caused by intense wildfires this summer
By Michel Valette and Haleema Misal The months of June and July in Europe have witnessed record high temperatures leading to many wildfires over the continent.…
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Dr Daniele Colombaroli
It’s with great sorrow that we share news of the death of Dr Daniele Colombaroli. One of the first members of our Centre’s supervisory team, Daniele…
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Extreme heat in the UK and wildfires: why we should expect it to happen again
By Theo Keeping and Olivia Haas On Friday 15th July 2022, the UK Met Office issued its first ever Red Warning for exceptional heat. Over the…
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A Global Perspective on Local Fire Use
by James Millington (King’s College London) If you do a Google Scholar search for ‘human’ or ‘anthropogenic’ and ‘landscape fire’ you’ll be returned over 5,000 papers.…
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Starting the conversation on decolonising fire science
Reporting from the “Decolonising Fire-Science- An Introduction” Workshop Full report available here by Abi Croker and Adriana Ford Research is a political act, and the way…
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Working in partnership to reduce the threat of wildfire in Scotland
Scotland may be the most northern part of the UK, but with wildfires increasing in frequency and intensity at higher latitudes, a considerable and growing threat…
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A novel method for using pollen records to reconstruct historic fire regimes
By Natalie Sanders and Yicheng Shen The Iberian Peninsula, home to Mediterranean beaches and mountains, pine trees and paella, sangria and siestas. But this southwestern region…
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We know it can be hard to keep track of all the news and events happening in the world of fire science, so to make it…
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Fire on Earth is not increasing
By Ol Perkins (King’s College London) From media reports, you might think that vegetation fires are rapidly increasing. But this isn’t actually true – global satellite…
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