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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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  • KCL researchers take flight in ‘SwathSense 2021’ project to improve the way Land Surface Temperature is measured

    3rd August, 21 / Latest News

    KCL researchers, including members of Leverhulme Wildfires, successfully carried out an airborne campaign last month – ‘SwathSense 2021’ – with the aim of improving the way land surface temperature is measured. Land surface temperature (LST) can be very different to air temperature and is a key parameter related to many Earth system processes, for example […]

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  • NCEO Researchers track effects of the devastating Western North America heatwave

    24th July, 21 / Latest News

    NCEO Researchers, including Leverhulme Wildfires researchers at King’s College London, used European and American satellites to help contextualise the exceptional heatwave which has recently enveloped Western Canada and the North-Western United States. Read the article here   Image: IMS land surface temperatures on 29th June 2021. Temperatures are in Kelvin

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  • Smoke increases fatigue in flying butterflies

    5th July, 21 / Latest News

    Landscape fires burn across millions of square kilometres of Earth’s landscapes each year. Though each of these fires maybe individually small, the very large numbers of fires burning simultaneously can seriously degrade local and regional air quality by releasing a complex mixture of gases and aerosols. These smoke emissions may not only have significant effects […]

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  • Investigating fundamental wildfire drivers

    24th June, 21 / Latest News

    by Alex Kuhn-Regnier Alex Kuhn-Regnier is a PhD student at Imperial College London based in the Department of Physics. He investigates wildfire models and how to improve the representation of the ecological impacts of future wildfire changes.   My PhD began by asking the question “What are the fundamental drivers of wildfires?” Far from being […]

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  • KCL researchers in new 10-million-euro project to tackle forest fires in Europe

    24th May, 21 / Latest News

    Image: A forest fire burning in Enskogen, as seen by Sentinel-2 on 16th July (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018], processed by the Copernicus Support Office)  King’s College London will be one of 39 partners from across the world involved in the new research project FirEUrisk, starting this month, which will develop a science-based strategy […]

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  • Spontaneous ignition of smouldering peat fires (and how to simulate them in the field)

    10th May, 21 / Latest News

    Figure 1: Smouldering wildfire of a carbon-rich soil system in Las Tablas de Daimiel (Photo by Dr G Rein, 2009). Researchers at Imperial College Hazelab, including members of Leverhulme Wildfires, have recently published a new paper developing a multi-step reaction model to study the potential of peatland fires starting from self-heating ignition, in the International […]

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  • Landscape fires estimated to cause over 600 thousand premature deaths each year, many in children under five

    19th March, 21 / Latest News

    Photo: Smoke from surrounding peatland fires often pollutes the air in the city of Palangkarya (Kalimantan, Indonesia) – home to around 250,000 people.  During these events. levels of airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) reach many times those considered extremely hazardous to health. Ambient (outdoor) air pollution is the world’s greatest environmental health risk, and a […]

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

Latest News
  • 24th June, 22

    Summer placement in wildfire research available for undergraduate students

  • 13th June, 22

    Upcoming: Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Mediterranean Wildfires (15 June)

  • 10th June, 22

    A novel method for using pollen records to reconstruct historic fire regimes

  • 9th June, 22

    Leverhulme Wildfires Network – sign up to our mailing list for all the latest news

  • 6th June, 22

    Fire on Earth is not increasing

  • 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)

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June 24, 2022

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