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Wildland firefighters face heat from the environment, the fire and their own bodies as they work long, exhausting hours. The head of Purdue’s fire lab explains the health risks and what can help.
Kalimantan’s land fires aren’t just down to El Niño—they are caused by soil losing its ability to hold water. Prevention must start by restoring the soil’s natural balance.
Australia may enter spring with a highly flammable landscape – and no room for complacency.
The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
Without First Nations people, Kangaroo Island has burned widely over the past 2,000 years as the climate got drier.
After a disaster, getting help from people who are distant and unaffected is crucial. This is how charities can encourage generosity through connection.
Even though you may mostly hear about fires in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, it’s Africa that has far and away the most acreage burned and people exposed to fire.
Fires and cities do not mix. Authorities have spent decades reducing the risk. But climate change will make some urban fires more likely.
Debris flows can move with the speed of a freight train, picking up and demolishing anything in their path.
Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of dystopian fiction simply become a part of everyday life.
The chemicals emitted when buildings and vehicles burn can find their way into nearby homes. Studies show the health risks can stick around.
If you live in a flood-prone area, especially near the ocean, it’s important to know the risks if your EV is flooded. Or your golf cart, e-bike or other device with lithium-ion batteries.
Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.
Homeowners insurance is so expensive that some people are going without it.
Satellites used satellite sensors to identify the 0.01% ‘most extreme’ fires worldwide.
The record-breaking and destructive forest fires of the summer of 2023 made headlines. But how did they affect the millions of lakes in the burned catchment areas?
The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
Marsupial rescue, rehabilitation and release statistics from New South Wales and Kangaroo Island during Black Summer fires reveal poor survival rates, despite the courageous efforts of volunteers.
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professeur écologie et aménagement forestier, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Professor of Physics, Clemson University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Scientist and Research Project Leader, Data61, CSIRO
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Researcher, Centre for International Forestry Research
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Research fellow, University of Wollongong
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Principal Investigator FiRES Project (SNSF Consolidator Grant), ETH Zürich, Switzerland // Honorary Associate Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne
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Forest and fire scientist, The University of Melbourne