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How Potassium in Biomass Could Improve Wildfire Emission Estimates
By Farrer Owsley-Brown, King’s College London Leverhulme Wildfires researchers from King’s College London have published a new paper, “Can the remote sensing of combustion phase improve estimates of landscape fire smoke emission rate and composition?”, in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. Our work takes a fresh look at a crucial, yet often overlooked, factor in wildfire emissions: […]
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.2
Welcome to the second Giraffe Team Bulletin! Approximately every two months, we share a Giraffe Team bulletin, providing you with an update on the latest from each of our six teams. We hope you enjoy the bulletins and that it helps you keep abreast of our research. Please do get in touch if you want […]
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L.A. Wildfires: Reimagining recovery and resilience
by Alex Mines, Imperial College London/ Leverhulme Wildfires In the aftermath of the palisades and Eaton Wildfires of Los Angeles this month, California’s communities, policymakers, and insurance markets must collaborate to promote greater fire-resiliency. California can be observed as a ‘canary in the coalmine’ when identifying market and governance challenges states face when confronted by […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires expert Prof Martin Wooster awarded MBE in New Year Honours
A huge congratulations to our Associate Director Prof Martin Wooster, expert in wildfires and earth observation at KCL, for being awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours! Read more here! Photo: Prof Martin Wooster (left) with some of the team (Luke Richardson-Foulger and Dr Mark Grosevnor, and at the back Chris Sherwin from […]
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What does the next generation of fire-vegetation models look like?
On the 16th of September the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society hosted a number of international visitors at Dartington Hall in Devon, for a brainstorming session on global fire modelling. The brainstorming session brought together a number of scientists with expertise ranging from machine learning and remote sensing to plant response to drought. […]
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Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Wildfire Management in Monreale, Sicily
Wildfires in the Mediterranean region have emerged as a pressing issue, exacerbated by climate change and evolving land use practices. Traditionally, fire management strategies have leaned heavily on suppression methods. However, this reactive approach is increasingly seen as unsustainable, often leading to catastrophic wildfires that threaten both lives and the environment. To address these challenges […]
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The global drivers of wildfire: connecting empirical evidence to modelling practices
The Leverhulme Wildfires Fire-Veg Giraffe Team has published a new paper “The Global Drivers of Wildfire” in Frontiers in Environmental Science. This paper compares how the processes embedded in the current global empirical fire models relate to findings of recent empirical analysis on the controls of burnt area globally and what the implications are for […]
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.1
Welcome to the first Giraffe Team Bulletin! For those new to our “Giraffe Teams”, you can find out more about each one of them, including their overall aims and objectives, here. Our giraffe teams are bit like ‘tiger teams’ (a term used in business) with specialists working together to tackle specific problems, but we are […]
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“The Encouragement I didn’t know I needed” – Reflections from Visiting Researcher, Candice Charlton
Seven months after I first encountered Professor Prentice’s Earth Systems poster at the World Climate Research Programme Open Conference in Rwanda, I was at the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society at Imperial College London in May 2024. On my first day, I met Dr Adriana Ford, who was instrumental in hosting and organizing […]
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Making human fire use data more accessible: The Global Fire Use Survey app
In 2022 and 2023, researchers in the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society distributed the Global Fire Use Survey to academics and fire practitioners, gathering one of the first global datasets about human fire use and its governance. The survey collected over 300 responses. To make the data more accessible to fire managers, policymakers […]
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