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Emergency, public health and climate action plans rarely mention deliberately lit fires and how to prevent them. And there are few services for offenders to stop them lighting fires again.
New research on the European Little Ice Age in England has upended established narratives and provided a window into an era of climatic instability not too different from our own.
Recent wildfires in Belize shows how we must work together to revitalize Indigenous knowledge systems and plant the seeds of collaborative climate action.
Simple steps can help families reduce the risk of fire in their homes and communities.
Seeds buried in the soil tell of fire in the landscape. I sampled soil from 57 sites that experienced different patterns of fire. Over 15 months, I watched 39,701 plants grow to learn their secrets.
Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.
Fire events, like the one which has destroyed much of Jasper, will only get worse in a warming world. Canada needs a national wildfire strategy to meet these challenges.
The first thing to remember is that all smoke is harmful. Typically, if you can smell smoke, it’s at a level where it’s impacting your health.
A fire that destroyed St. Anne’s Church in Toronto serves as a reminder that cultural legacy needs to be conserved and protected from disaster.
An analysis of 88 million wildfire observations over the past 21 years shows a strong increase in the frequency and intensity of the most extreme fires around the world.
A chemistry professor attempts to bridge the gap between the magical and the biological by exploring the biochemistry of dragon fire.
The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
We compiled maps of bushfires and prescribed burns in southern Australia from 1980 to 2021 to see how fire activity is changing habitat for 129 threatened species such as mountain pygmy possums.
Marsupial rescue, rehabilitation and release statistics from New South Wales and Kangaroo Island during Black Summer fires reveal poor survival rates, despite the courageous efforts of volunteers.
What does fire management do to soils? We compared prescribed burning to cultural burning and looked at how soil properties changed after fire. Cultural burning was better.
Electric vehicles are catching on across the US, but they’re also catching on fire in colder regions like the Northeast and Midwest.
From sacrificial bark to fire-germinating gumnuts to stealthy buds the eucalyptus has evolved an arsenal of protective measures.
We’re all familiar with fire. But do you really know what it is and how it starts? Here’s the chemistry of fire – and why Australia is so prone to going up in flames.
Nearly a third of all moorland burning in Scotland occurs on peat soil – a vital carbon sink.
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior research fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Professor in Digital Construction and Fire Engineering, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University