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

Latest News
  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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

    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

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