Fire and climate change

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Our forests have reached a tipping point

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Adapting to a fiery world

The world cannot eliminate major fire events but needs to broaden the way it prepares for them, writes George Perry of the University of Auckland. Australia. California. Mediterranean Europe. Alaska. Greenland. Each week there are news reports describing unprecedented fire events in another part of the world. These reports are often associated with heated debate about the causes of these fire events. Are they exacerbated by the climate emergency? What about fuel management? Are patterns ...

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Blueprint to adapt to a warmer world – Expert Reaction - SCI MEDIA CENTRE NZ April 2022

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Lessons learned from wildfires - stuff SPONSORED CONTENT BY FIRE AND EMERGENCY NEW ZEALAND

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The 2019-20 mega-fires: what did we learn and will it equip us for the future? – UNI OF WOOLLONGONG

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This summer could change our understanding of extreme heat

Hot Air Sucks!

Raging Australian bushfires, Arctic “zombie fires”. Climate change can make wildfires more intense. This is how.

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Wildfires on the horizon

Jessie Chiang talks to Grant Pearce from Scion Rural Fire Research about the growing fire risk in NZ. "It's not a problem that's just prone to the more remote, rural areas. Increasingly we're seeing these fires involving homes and also large numbers of people being affected and being evacuated," he says. And they're starting earlier - as early as the end of winter. In August this year, 3000 hectares of vegetation around Lake Pukaki went up in smoke...

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Rural fire risk

INTERACTIVE: Rural fire risk

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Timing the burning

Invasive weeds and wildfires — ARTICLE Catastrophic wildfires are becoming more and more prevalent While climate change indeed raises the risk of wildfires, our research shows that another way humans can change patterns of fire activity is by introducing flammable plants...

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Wildfire

Low-flammability garden saves home — ARTICLE We need to explore a range of options to reduce fire risk in the landscape, particularly in areas where human homes and infrastructure (or vulnerable ecosystems and wildlife) are next to plants that fuel wildfires. One approach to reducing wildfire spread is to plant “green firebreaks”...

Adapting to a fiery world

Australia had more supersized bushfires creating their own storms last summer than in previous 30 years

Australia experienced more supersized weather-generating fires in the 2019-20 bushfire season than in the previous 30 years, the royal commission into national natural disaster arrangements has heard. Huge thunderstorm-type clouds called pyrocumulonimbus form over fires in particularly hot, dry and dangerous conditions and are capable of generating their own winds and lightning.

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Learning to live with blazes in the drying South

As researchers prepare to sift through the ashes of another devastating fire in a drying South Island landscape, a political battle over how to manage fire risk in rural New Zealand blazes on. Hamish MacLean talks to those who best understand the fires that are increasingly affecting the South.