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Targeted land management strategies could halve peatland fire occurrences in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Indonesian peatlands and their large carbon stores are under threat from recurrent large-scale fires driven by anthropogenic ecosystem degradation....
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Climate change mitigation-adaptation relationships in forest management: perspectives from the fire-prone American West
Minimizing negative impacts of climate change on human and natural systems requires mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to new...
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Hydrogel use in burn therapy, thermal management, wastewater treatment and fire fighting: a review
Hydrogels are 3-dimensional polymeric networks with unique properties of high flexibility and high water content, and are thus advanced materials for...
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Environmental effects of a management method used after fire on development of temperate Scots pine ecosystem: a 15-year study from Poland
Due to the ongoing climate changes, temperate forests are increasingly exposed to fires. However, until now the functioning of post-fire temperate...
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Active Fire Monitoring
Fire monitoring across the world benefits from raw satellite imagery and processed fire map** datasets. Google Earth Engine supports fire...
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Greenhouse gas emission in the whole process of forest fire including rescue: a case of forest fire in Beibei District of Chongqing
AbstractIn the context of global high temperature, the harm of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions caused by frequent forest fires to the environment...
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Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises
The fire crises in the Amazon continues to increase the risk of large-scale forest dieback, threatening regional biodiversity and global climate....
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Factors influencing fire accidents in urban complexes: a combined DEMATEL and ISM study
Fire outbreaks in urban complexes are a major safety concern worldwide. Therefore, this study aims to examine the critical factors that influence...
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What is a fire resilient landscape? Towards an integrated definition
The concept of fire resilience has become increasingly relevant as society looks to understand and respond to recent wildfire events. In particular,...
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In temperate Europe, fire is already here: The case of The Netherlands
Landscape fires are usually not associated with temperate Europe, yet not all temperate countries record statistics indicating that actual risks...
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Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and...
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Knowledge systems approaches for enhancing project impacts in complex settings: community fire management and peatland restoration in Indonesia
Knowledge systems approaches for enhancing the impact of research are well established and tend to focus on the ways in which researchers can adapt...
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Carbon taxation as a means to incentivize forest and fire management
Wildland fires are increasingly becoming a major concern for many European countries, affecting ecosystems and societies, and they are expected to...
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Fire regime of peatlands in the Angolan Highlands
The Angolan Highlands region includes the Angolan miombo woodland ecoregion which supports miombo woodland, grasslands, subsistence agricultural...
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Climate change strongly affects future fire weather danger in Indian forests
Changes in temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and relative humidity due to climate change are likely to alter future fire regimes. We quantified...
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Declining severe fire activity on managed lands in Equatorial Asia
Fire activity is declining globally due to intensifying land management, but trends remain uncertain for the humid tropics, particularly Equatorial...
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Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia
Savanna fire management is a topic of global debate, with early dry season burning promoted as a large-scale emissions reduction opportunity. To...
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Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes
The determinants of fire-driven changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) across broad environmental gradients remains unclear, especially in global...
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Global scale coupling of pyromes and fire regimes
Different interpretations of the fire regime concept have limited the capacity to allocate specific fire regimes worldwide. To solve this limitation,...
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Australia’s 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather exceptionally rare over the last 2000 years
Australia’s record-breaking 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather resulted from a combination of natural and anthropogenic climate factors, but the full...
