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  • Moto katika mazingira yanayoshindaniwa-kufanya kazi na washikadau wa Kenya kuelekea mbinu ya udhibiti wa moto iliyoondolewa ukoloni

    1st February, 23 / Latest News

    Muhtasari kutokana na sayansi ya kuondoa ukoloni wa moto-Warsha ya moto kote katika mandhari yaliyogombewa(1-2 disemba,2022, Nairobi), na Adriana Ford na Abigail Crocker. iliyotafsiriwa na Elijah Praise [English version here]   Katika mahali kwingi ulimwenguni,simulizi za kikoloni za kupambana na moto,kama vile Imani kwamba watu wa kiasili na jumuiya za mitaa huchoma ovyo,yanazidi kueleza mikakati […]

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  • New FIRE-ADAPT project investigates how integrated fire management contributes to biodiversity, carbon, and cultural values

    31st January, 23 / Latest News

    A new project, FIRE-ADAPT, will investigate the benefits of fire in nature and society by integrating diverse areas of knowledge, from both the academic and operational world. The project, which is part of the Staff Exchanges program of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Union,  involves 15 European and 9 Latin American organizations, including […]

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  • Forest carbon credits: report shows new ways to manage risks and returns

    29th January, 23 / Latest News

    Investors wanting to finance forest carbon credit projects should look to diversified investment portfolios in the tropics, says a new report. “The study sheds light on the biodiversity potential of forest projects, and the risks of wildfire and other weather and climate hazards, leveraging support from the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society” Read […]

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  • Fire Across Contested Landscapes – working with Kenyan stakeholders towards a decolonised fire management approach

    14th December, 22 / Latest News

    Summary from the Decolonising Fire Science – Fire Across Contested Landscapes workshop (1-2 Dec 2022, Nairobi), by Adriana Ford and Abi Croker. [The full workshop report will be available, in English and Swahili, in the New Year. This summary is also available in Swahili]   In many parts of the world, colonially derived anti-fire narratives, […]

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  • The impact of landscape fire smoke on insects

    5th November, 22 / Latest News

    by Yanan Liu Landscape fires are expected to increase in many regions because of rises in temperature and changes in precipitation from global climate change. Smoke emissions from landscape fires contain many harmful atmospheric pollutants and will have ecological impacts. In particular, as insects play essential roles in many ecosystems, they may be sensitive to […]

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  • Wildfires as a Shared Arctic Variable

    27th October, 22 / Latest News

    By Adriana Ford In 2021, another grim milestone for climate change was reported – smoke from wildfires had reached the North Pole. Whilst it can’t yet be definitively determined if it was a historic first, it was nevertheless symbolic of the pressing issue of wildfires in the Arctic. The significance of Arctic fires is reflected […]

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  • Satellite data reveals extent of burnt areas in Europe caused by intense wildfires this summer

    22nd August, 22 / Latest News

    By Michel Valette and Haleema Misal   The months of June and July in Europe have witnessed record high temperatures leading to many wildfires over the continent. Mediterranean countries are accustomed to wildfires due to ecosystem and climatic factors, but this fire season is especially intense. The heatwave in July also spread to northern Europe, […]

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  • Dr Daniele Colombaroli

    17th August, 22 / Latest News

    It’s with great sorrow that we share news of the death of Dr Daniele Colombaroli. One of the first members of our Centre’s supervisory team, Daniele was a highly respected and much-liked colleague. We will miss his openness, his unfailing support for students, and his commitment to palaeo-research. Our thoughts are with his wife Carole, […]

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  • Extreme heat in the UK and wildfires: why we should expect it to happen again

    28th July, 22 / Latest News

    By Theo Keeping and Olivia Haas On Friday 15th July 2022, the UK Met Office issued its first ever Red Warning for exceptional heat. Over the following two days, temperatures across the UK broke records, reaching 40.3°C in England, 37.1 °C in Wales and 34.8°C in Scotland. The weather drove a sharp response in wildfire […]

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  • A Global Perspective on Local Fire Use

    20th July, 22 / Latest News

    by James Millington (King’s College London)   If you do a Google Scholar search for ‘human’ or ‘anthropogenic’ and ‘landscape fire’ you’ll be returned over 5,000 papers. From this you might conclude that there’s lots of information available to enable a coherent global understanding of human impacts on landscape fire. Surprisingly, that’s not the case, […]

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  • 1st February, 23

    Moto katika mazingira yanayoshindaniwa-kufanya kazi na washikadau wa Kenya kuelekea mbinu ya udhibiti wa moto iliyoondolewa ukoloni

  • 31st January, 23

    New FIRE-ADAPT project investigates how integrated fire management contributes to biodiversity, carbon, and cultural values

  • 31st January, 23

    Upcoming: Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth (1 Mar 2023)

  • 29th January, 23

    Forest carbon credits: report shows new ways to manage risks and returns

  • 14th December, 22

    Fire Across Contested Landscapes – working with Kenyan stakeholders towards a decolonised fire management approach

  • 27th November, 22

    Upcoming: Progress in Fire Modelling in the UK & Europe (11-12 Jan 2023)

  • 26th November, 22

    Decolonising Fire Science – Fire Management Across Contested Landscapes (1-2 Dec 2022)

  • 5th November, 22

    The impact of landscape fire smoke on insects

  • 29th October, 22

    The Culture File Debate: The Fire This Time (29 Oct 2022)

  • 27th October, 22

    Wildfires as a Shared Arctic Variable

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February 1, 2023

One month until Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth @SciGalleryLon, 1st Mar!
> Hear from wildfire scientists
> Discuss art & science
> Preview exhibition
> Q&A panel with artist Clinton Naina & experts
Free and open to all! #stolenclimate
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