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  • Arctic Wildfires: Leverhulme Wildfires at ISAR-7

    26th May, 23 / Latest News

    by Katie Blackford and Matt Kasoar (Department of Physics, Imperial College London) From the 6th to 10th March, we attended the Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research, held at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Japan. This biennial conference brings together hundreds of polar scientists from around the world, with a focus on […]

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  • Indigenous representatives develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana, with support from Leverhulme Wildfires

    24th April, 23 / Latest News

    Indigenous representatives from Region 9 develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana with support from research by the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, UK Over twenty Indigenous representatives from the Rupununi came together to address growing concerns about fire management in Guyana. Together, they developed a set of Rupununi Fire Management […]

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  • Wildfires from above – What can and can’t we “hear”?

    3rd March, 23 / Latest News

    By Olivia Haas This article is associated with the event – Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth Wildfire seasons in the last few years have been some of the deadliest on record. Increasingly, images of a world on fire are being used to demonstrate the current climate emergency. However, our history with fire […]

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  • Stolen Climate exhibition highlights the complexity of wildfire and its relationship with culture, climate and colonialism

    21st February, 23 / Events , Latest News

    In a world where changing patterns of wildfire are affecting people in more extreme ways, what can global perspectives on fire offer us? And how can different ways of knowing inform how we face the future? A new exhibition features a collection of artwork, film and photography which presents First Nations Peoples’ perspectives on fire, […]

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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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Latest News
  • 6th June, 23

    Upcoming: RGS Conference Session: ‘Governing fire across spatial boundaries’ (1 Sept 2023)

  • 30th May, 23

    Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – call for poster abstracts

  • 26th May, 23

    Arctic Wildfires: Leverhulme Wildfires at ISAR-7

  • 9th May, 23

    Leverhulme Wildfires PhD Photo Competition

  • 24th April, 23

    Indigenous representatives develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana, with support from Leverhulme Wildfires

  • 21st April, 23

    Upcoming: Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – save the date, 25th July

  • 28th March, 23

    Summer placement 2023 (1) in wildfire research available for undergraduate students – Data Science Institute

  • 3rd March, 23

    Wildfires from above – What can and can’t we “hear”?

  • 21st February, 23

    Stolen Climate exhibition highlights the complexity of wildfire and its relationship with culture, climate and colonialism

  • 15th February, 23

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

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