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The recent Canadian wildfires revealed the need for cutting-edge disaster management strategies.
Extreme weather has an outsized impact on everyday life. Focusing on average weather patterns may make Americans dangerously complacent about how climate change is already affecting our lives.
Fire has played a vital role in human history, and will continue to. Recent advances in fusion herald the freeing of fire from captivity back into its natural form.
Wildfire makes up about 4% of the greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
European invasion completely disrupted the way aboriginal Australians managed fire. Learning from Australia’s first people could help us fight fires in the future.
The third-ever ‘super’ El Niño is under way. Here’s how it will affect your region in the US and how global warming affects this and future El Niños.
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.
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.
A new computer modelling technology has been created to continually update and predict wildfire growth for lengthy fire blazes…
The frequency of large wildfires in the western US have been increasing over the past several decades. The Rim Fire, currently threatening the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park, is an example…
The tragic events in Yarnell, Arizona, where 19 firefighters died battling a forest fire, brought to the forefront the dangers of forest fires. The changes in climate that have been observed during the…
Wildfires produce mixed results for the economies of local communities. They impact the working lives of many and lead to…
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
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Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Investigadora Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (Universidad de Oviedo - CSIC)
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Wildfire Specialist at the University of California Cooperative Extension; Adjunct Professor Bren School of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Associate Professor of Geography and Director, Earth Lab, University of Colorado Boulder
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Sr. Associate Vice President for Research and Research Professor, University of Oregon
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
