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  • Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity

    20th May, 22 / Latest News

    By Olivia Haas and Natalie Sanders Wildfires are a fundamental ecological process but studying wildfire patterns and properties at a global scale is challenging. However, understanding wildfire processes is essential to fully describe global vegetation distribution and structure. In addition to temperature and precipitation, vegetation can both influence and be influenced by wildfire regimes. A […]

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  • Climate drivers of wildfire burned area across the globe

    12th April, 22 / Latest News

    By Dr Manolis Grillakis, Technical University of Crete   Meteorological conditions are a key driver of wildfire activity and extent, which led to the emergence of the use of fire danger indices that depend on weather conditions. The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) is one of them. In this project, we evaluated how well the FWI, […]

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  • Future climate change impact on wildfire danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece

    8th April, 22 / Latest News

    By Anastasios Rovithakis, Technical University of Crete Feature image(gif): The catastrophic 2021 summer fires in Greece Greece has experienced many catastrophic wild fires in the recent years in response to extended drought periods driven by climate change. The country follows the general Mediterranean trend of increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation in the distant future, thus […]

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  • Declining controlled fire use undermines subsistence-oriented and smallholder livelihoods, and threatens ecosystems

    28th March, 22 / Latest News

    By Cathy Smith, Ol Perkins, and Jay Mistry Photo – Swidden clearance fire in Belize (Credit: Cathy Smith) When most people in the UK think about landscape fire, they think about exceptional, devastating wildfire events like those in California, Australia, and the Amazon in recent years. Yet, for many people worldwide, fire is an everyday […]

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  • Women and diversity in the new paradigm of fire science

    7th March, 22 / Latest News

    by Dr Adriana Ford, Centre Manager, on International Women’s Day 2022     “The main hurdles faced by women working in fire science echo those seen in other sectors of science, and the current gender gap might indeed be depriving the world of possible science advancements of the skills and intellectual perspectives of women, putting […]

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  • Call for Papers: Knowledges of Fire in Latin America and the Caribbean

    24th February, 22 / Latest News

    CALL FOR PAPERS: Knowledges of Fire in Latin America and the Caribbean- The contribution of UNESCO sites to fire management in the face of climate change emergencies Download information as pdf Call website   GUEST EDITORS Bibiana Alejandra Bilbao (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela | COBRA Collective | landmarc: Land Use based Mitigation for Resilient Climate […]

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  • The Fastest and Most Complex Wildfire Spread Pathway: Firebrand Spotting

    17th January, 22 / Latest News

     by Simona Dossi and Guillermo Rein, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London Photo:  Firebrand shower during the 2018 Delta Fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, USA. Photo courtesy of Noah Berger/Associated Press (noahbergerphoto.com). Photo shows numerous airborne firebrands and flames on the grass appear to be ignited by the landing firebrands Wildfires pose […]

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  • Developing research impact and future collaborations on fire management with Indigenous peoples in Guyana

    12th January, 22 / Latest News

    By Kayla de Freitas and Jay Mistry, Royal Holloway University of London Centre researchers Kayla de Freitas and Jay Mistry from Royal Holloway met with the South Rupununi District Council, Guyana to discuss how current and future research can feed into practical fire management activities. On the 17th December 2021, Kayla de Freitas and Jay […]

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  • Developing an ecosystem-centred fire framework: causes and consequences

    15th December, 21 / Latest News

    Figure 1. Forest regrowth after wildfire. Victoria, Australia. Credit Neal Herbert By Natalie Sanders (Imperial College London) How do we disentangle extreme fire events resulting from climate change with natural wildfire regimes? And how might we model the interaction of climate and ecosystem properties, in order to better predict and manage wildfires? Part of the […]

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  • An introduction to wildfire ignition, fire spread, and fire suppression

    16th August, 21 / Latest News

    Francesco Restuccia, Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London, and Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science at Imperial College London, discuss wildfire ignition, fire spread, and fire suppression. They look at problems such as the wildland urban interface (WUI), fire spread, fire suppression, ignition criteria, to have a better fundamental understanding of how these fires […]

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Our mission is to lead game-changing global research for understanding, predicting and managing wildfires.

Latest News
  • 20th May, 22

    Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity

  • 12th April, 22

    Climate drivers of wildfire burned area across the globe

  • 8th April, 22

    Future climate change impact on wildfire danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece

  • 30th March, 22

    Fire in Practice – Tercia Strydom, SANParks (26 Apr)

  • 30th March, 22

    Leverhulme Wildfires- FURNACES joint research workshop (19 Apr)

  • 28th March, 22

    Declining controlled fire use undermines subsistence-oriented and smallholder livelihoods, and threatens ecosystems

  • 17th March, 22

    Decolonising Fire Science – An Introduction (5 Apr)

  • 11th March, 22

    What’s Next? Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Reality (18 Mar)

  • 11th March, 22

    High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health Workshop (28 Mar)

  • 9th March, 22

    PhD Studentship: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge

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May 25, 2022

Well done to our ECRs who've presented research at this year's @EuroGeosciences conference in Vienna! Plus, for those attending, don't miss out on our session - "The socio-ecological dynamics of Anthropocene wildfire regimes" on Friday 27th https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43581 #EGU22

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Department of Physics,
South Kensington,
London, SW7 2BW, UK.

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