Global carbon emissions from forest fires have increased by 60% over the past two decades, with the largest contributions coming from fires in Siberia and western North America.
- Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
Climate change promotes ideal conditions for catastrophic fires, but the most drastic changes can still be avoided.
New research shows boreal forests comprised 23% of global wildfire emissions in 2021, up from 10% in a typical year.
La duración de la temporada de incendios ha aumentado en casi todas las regiones del mundo.
Fire weather reason – when wildfires are most likely to strike – has expanded almost everywhere.
Boreal forests store one-third of all terrestrial carbon - but for how long?
But humans can counteract global warming impacts by creating more fire-resilient societies.
Portugal’s wildfire has killed 64 people. Yet, as with Grenfell Tower in London, the risk of such a blaze was foreseeable.
Satellite images show smoke covering Russia for thousands of kilometres.
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