Normally, many bushfires ease overnight, as temperatures fall and moisture in the air rises. But these are not normal times, as Queensland’s early-season fires are showing
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We used satellite data to create global maps of where and how fires are burning. Fire season lasts two weeks longer than it used to and fires are more intense. But there are regional differences.
For decades, construction companies have used fireproofing chemicals associated with risks to human health and the environment. We need safer alternatives.
Zombie fires smoulder through the winter and reignite in the early spring. How these fires behave is not well understood, but they can contribute to an earlier and longer fire season.
If the spring fire season in Canada is any indication, fire-loving pyrophilic insects will continue to thrive well into summer.
Fire weather reason – when wildfires are most likely to strike – has expanded almost everywhere.
Last week, much of the Midwest and eastern US experienced hazy skies and red sunsets. The cause was smoke transported from the Western US by the jet stream and spread as far as Boston and even Europe.
Understanding fire history is crucial to designing effective fire management in order to maintain biodiversity and support the livelihoods of people.
Unprecedented fires are devastating koalas along Australia’s east coast. These sudden drops in population put the survivors at risk of inbreeding.
Australia is heading into a scorching summer, but the factors causing the hot and dry weather are expected to ease later in the season.
The same day all of New South Wales was declared in drought, the state’s Rural Fire Service issued its earliest ever total fire bans.
Top contributors
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Postdoctoral Researcher and Honorary Lecturer | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Deakin University, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Newcastle
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PhD Candidate in Restoration Ecology, University of Newcastle
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NERC Independent Research Fellow in Climate Science, University of East Anglia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
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Research Affiliate, University of Newcastle
