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A novel method for using pollen records to reconstruct historic fire regimes
By Natalie Sanders and Yicheng Shen The Iberian Peninsula, home to Mediterranean beaches and mountains, pine trees and paella, sangria and siestas. But this southwestern region of Europe, mostly comprised of Portugal and Spain, is also a region known for its long history of being the most fire-affected region in southern Europe. It is […]
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We know it can be hard to keep track of all the news and events happening in the world of fire science, so to make it a little easier, you can join our Leverhulme Wildfires Network, by signing up to our mailing list. You will receive updates on all our Centre’s new publications, latest news […]
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Fire on Earth is not increasing
By Ol Perkins (King’s College London) From media reports, you might think that vegetation fires are rapidly increasing. But this isn’t actually true – global satellite data observe a decline in the amount of land that burns each year. Yes – fires are increasing in areas such as California, Southern Australia and the Mediterranean, but […]
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Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity
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
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
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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Fire in Practice – Tercia Strydom, SANParks (26 Apr)
In our April Fire in Practice seminar, Tercia Strydom talked about fire management in a large conservation area in South Africa Watch the recording here: Fire management in a large conservation area in South Africa About the Speaker Tercia Strydom has been working for South African National Parks (SANParks) for more than a decade. She […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires- FURNACES joint research workshop (19 Apr)
The goal of the meeting is to promote in-depth discussions with our affiliated project Fire in the Future: interaction with Ecosystems and Society (FURNACES) about synergistic activities and future collaborations. FURNACES is a 3-year German-Austrian collaborative project (2020-2023), which aims to bring together expertise in fire ecology, social ecology, remote sensing, data science and vegetation […]
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Declining controlled fire use undermines subsistence-oriented and smallholder livelihoods, and threatens ecosystems
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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Decolonising Fire Science – An Introduction (5 Apr)
The Leverhulme Wildfires EDI Working Group is pleased to invite you to the first of a series of planned events and activities on ‘Decolonising Fire Science’. This first workshop will be an introduction to the topic, aimed at Centre members and Affiliates. It will be a hybrid event, held on MS Teams and in the […]
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