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Climate change should have a significant impact on fire activity across the globe.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
European invasion completely disrupted the way aboriginal Australians managed fire. Learning from Australia’s first people could help us fight fires in the future.
Every year homes are lost in bushfires. But what if we build our houses to withstand fire?
New data analysis shows bushfires have increased by 40% in the past five years.
Fires in Tasmania have burnt thousands of hectares of wilderness. Other remote fires it’s better to put them out quickly.
It is now well documented that women and men are exposed to bushfire risk in different ways and degrees due to everyday divisions of labour and gendered norms.
The tragic loss of homes and property after an escaped burnoff shows the complexities of managing risk in a fire-prone land.
The fire season has arrived in southern Australia, but with a big El Niño driving hotter temperatures, will this be worse than other summers?
On the African continent, more fire for crops leads to less rainfall.
News images of traumatised homeowners huddled in front of the ashes of their homes have become increasingly familiar in recent years. But the question has to be asked - why are we so often surprised when…
Australians have always had to live with bushfires - but climate change is driving that fire danger even higher. And we’re not talking about a distant threat to future generations. According to real observations…
A new computer modelling technology has been created to continually update and predict wildfire growth for lengthy fire blazes…
You do not find many climate change sceptics on the end of [fire] hoses anymore… They are dealing with increasing numbers of fires, increasing rainfall events, increasing storm events. – A senior Victorian…
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professeur écologie et aménagement forestier, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Professor of Physics, Clemson University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Scientist and Research Project Leader, Data61, CSIRO
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Researcher, Centre for International Forestry Research
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Research fellow, University of Wollongong
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Principal Investigator FiRES Project (SNSF Consolidator Grant), ETH Zürich, Switzerland // Honorary Associate Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne
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Forest and fire scientist, The University of Melbourne