Global #wildfires #openburning intensity & emissions for November 2025 in #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS data ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam.... Mostly seasonal tropical fires + notable N Australia bushfires early in the month @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Mark Parrington@mparrington.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Global #wildfires #openburning intensity & emissions for October 2025 in #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS data ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam.... Mostly seasonal tropical fires (switching from S-N Africa) + notable Australia bushfires @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Honoured to receive the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography for research on pyrogeography, #wildfires, Earth system science, and #climate change impacts. So grateful for the mentorship, collaboration, and shared curiosity that make this work possible. I owe a lot of people a lot of beer! 🙂

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 12mo ago

@joshfdean.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25 The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change. 🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

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Well this has to go straight on the recommended reading list for people entering the field… or just seeking to broaden their fire knowledge! 😁

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper: The role of fire on Earth doi.org/10.1093/bios... BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet. 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

🔥 Our new research in @science.org shows that people are increasingly exposed to fires globally, driven by overlapping shifts in where #fires occur and where people live. But changes in exposure vary hugely by region and are shaped by different population dynamics.👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

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🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally - Nature Communications

The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...

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New study from my group with stellar international team. A multi-national dataset of prescribed #fires compiled and standardised from national records, with contemporaneous #weather conditions, land cover, fuel bed type, ++, included with each record. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx

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Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions! We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions! We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Adverse wildfire conditions will resurge somewhat today (very low humidity & stronger winds, though not as bad as Tue) across SoCal. Unfortunately, another period of offshore winds now appears likely next week as well. No rain next 10 days. #CAwx #CAfire #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 2y ago

In fact: In a 2021 piece, I discussed how there is already evidence that this "dry & windy" overlap has already increased from autumn and (episodically) into early winter--especially across Southern California. #CAwx #CAfire agupubs.onlinelibrar...

A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit

The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

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Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Southern California now sees longer fire weather seasons, like many other places worldwide Human-caused climate change means hot, dry, windy conditions happen more often, priming landscapes to burn more easily if ignition occurs Matt Jones et al 2022 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...