Human exposure to wildfires has more than doubled in two decades – read this if you're planning fireworks on July 4

Nearly 22 million people lived within 3 miles of a US wildfire in the past two decades. A new study tracking their locations flips the script on who is at risk.

Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University • conversation
July 3, 2023 ~7 min

Canada wildfires: an area larger than the Netherlands has been burned so far this year -- here's what is causing them

Canada has had over 2,000 wildfires already this year – here’s why.

Iván Villaverde Canosa, PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Leeds • conversation
June 16, 2023 ~7 min


How prescribed burns could limit megafires in U.S. West

Deployed in key areas, tactic could drastically reduce smoke exposure across region, study finds.

Kat J. McAlpine • harvard
June 14, 2023 ~7 min

How wildfire smoke can harm human health, even when the fire is hundreds of miles away – a toxicologist explains

Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities like Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the actual flames.

Christopher T. Migliaccio, Research Associate Professor in Toxicology, University of Montana • conversation
May 22, 2023 ~7 min

Humans were using fire in Europe 50,000 years earlier than we thought – new research

Signs of controlled fire use from Spain are at least 50,000 years older than previous evidence.

Clayton Magill, Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, The Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University • conversation
May 19, 2023 ~8 min

Fire danger in the high mountains is intensifying: That’s bad news for humans, treacherous for the environment

Fires here can affect meltwater timing and water quality, worsen erosion that triggers mudslides, and much more, as two scientists explain.

Mojtaba Sadegh, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University • conversation
April 19, 2023 ~8 min

The West's iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires – altering how fires burn could boost their chances

Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.

Philip Higuera, Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana • conversation
March 6, 2023 ~9 min

The West's iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires – altering how fires burn could help

Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.

Philip Higuera, Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana • conversation
March 6, 2023 ~9 min


The West's iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires – altering how fires burn could turn that around

Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.

Philip Higuera, Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana • conversation
March 6, 2023 ~9 min

Extreme wildfires are turning the world's largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter

New research shows boreal forests comprised 23% of global wildfire emissions in 2021, up from 10% in a typical year.

Stefan H Doerr, Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University • conversation
March 3, 2023 ~6 min

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