Portugal’s wildfire has killed 64 people. Yet, as with Grenfell Tower in London, the risk of such a blaze was foreseeable.
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Developed nations need to stop telling smoggy cities to clean up their act and start critiquing their own consumption habits.
We can manage the risks from bushfires far more effectively if we look at the ways different plant species control the the way the fires burn.
Satellite images show smoke covering Russia for thousands of kilometres.
In a part of Washington state hit hard by extreme fire, a fire ecologist explains how prescribed burns and thinning can make the land more fire-resilient.
Restoring forest landscapes through active thinning and letting fires burn in order to minimize fire damage has proved harder and less effective than advocates believed, says historian of fire.
A review of more than 40 years of wildfire activity in the western U.S. demonstrates the potent effect drier, warming spring seasons, due to climate change, is having on wildfires.
Yes, climate change is creating conditions for the extraordinary wildfires near Fort McMurray, Alberta, but El Niño played a bigger role, says atmospheric scientist.
Last year, fires burned 2 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia. The country wants to restore them. But first it needs to know the extent and depth of its peatlands.
While Indonesia has taken steps to address the worst forest fires in living memory, a new palm oil alliance with Malaysia threatens to take a giant leap back.
Federal agencies pay much of the cost to fight forest fires, which means taxpayers are subsidizing the risky practice of building more homes at the wildland-urban interface.
Scientists and policymakers - aware of the extreme dry season of El Nino - have warned of fires in Indonesia months in advance. Why then, do fires continue to blaze and what is being done about it?
The US West – suffering one of the most damaging wildfire seasons this decade – needs to break with current practices to avert more costly and dangerous wildfires in the future.
New early-warning systems are being developed and they’re warning of imminent danger.
Top contributors
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Investigadora Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (Universidad de Oviedo - CSIC)
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Associated Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minho
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Professor of Forest Protection, IPB University
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Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
