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Fire, Power and the Burning Savanna
Official efforts to suppress fire may be contributing to reductions in large, burned areas, while the everyday burning practices that sustain livelihoods continue across the landscape. New story in the King’s Spheres of Knowledge Substack, featuring our Centre members Dr Rahina Sidiki Alare, Prof Kate Schreckenberg and Dr Emma Tebbs. Read the story here https://kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/fire-power-and-the-burning-savanna
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Why India Keeps Fighting the Fires Its Forests Need
A study tracing 150 years of Indian forest law argues that bans on community burning survive every shift in policy because they were never really about fire New story in the King’s Spheres of Knowledge Substack, featuring our Centre members Dr Kapil Yadav, Prof Kate Schreckenberg and Dr Emma Tebbs. Read the story here https://kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/why-india-keeps-fighting-the-fires […]
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Wildfires Research through the Lens II – ECR Photography Competition
In association with the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026, we are running competition to find photographs and accompanying narratives that best communicate the impressive work of Early Career Research (ECRs) studying wildfires. Conference attendees and the public are invited to vote for the People’s Choice award worth £150! The Judge’s Awards are worth £250 (winner) […]
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.5
Welcome to the fifth 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. However this fifth bulletin covers approx 4 months, as we did not publish one over the summer. We hope you enjoy the bulletins and […]
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Fires, farming and the Irish uplands
by Kalin Pugh, Royal Holloway – reporting on their undergraduate research placement with Leverhulme Wildfires Fires, Farming and Policy in Ireland At the end of July, I went to West Cork, Ireland, to conduct contextual fieldwork as part of my preparation for writing my undergraduate dissertation during a placement between Royal Holloway, University of […]
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Equitable Fire Management in Ghana
Equitable Fire Management in Ghana: co-developing an adaptable framework with local communities using social science and arts-based methods by Adriana Ford, Rahina Sidiki Alare, Kate Schreckenberg (KCL/Leverhulme Wildfires), Godwin Evenyo Dzekoto (A Rocha Ghana) and Danny Anetang (MagzyART) In recent years, the prevalence of wildfires has become a major concern for societies across the globe. […]
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.4
Welcome to the fourth 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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Living with fire: adapting to changing wildfires risks in the Brazilian Amazon
New blog post by PhD student, Michel Valette. Living with fire: adapting to changing wildfires risks in the Brazilian Amazon – Imperial Natural Sciences blog
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.3
Welcome to the third 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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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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