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Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change: a new study led by a PyroLife ESR

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PyroLife is proud to announce the publication of the research article titled ‘Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change’ in the International Journal of Wildland Fire. This study is led by Hugo Lambrechts, a PyroLife Early Stage Researcher at Wageningen University & Research. His research sheds light on the escalating fire risks in the Netherlands as a result of climate change. Hugo assessed both historical and future trends in fire danger in the Netherlands. The study employs the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) and the Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) to evaluate fire danger, integrating historical weather […]
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The Great Fire of 1910: how wildfire smoke changed lives for decades

Papers
Written by Sarah Meier. On the research article by Sarah Meier (University of Exeter), Eric Strobl (University of Bern), and Robert J.R. Elliott (University of Birmingham): The impact of wildfire smoke exposure on excess mortality and later-life socioeconomic outcomes: The Great Fire of 1910.  In the summer of 1910, a firestorm swept across the northern Rocky Mountains, consuming more than 1.2 million hectares in just two days. Known as The Big Burn or The Big Blowup, it became one of the largest wildfires in US history (shown in Figure 1). The Great Fire of 1910 burnt about the size of […]
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A team led by a PyroLife ESR awarded the Atlas Award 2024 for pioneering research on international wildfire policies

Little victories
PyroLife Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Pooja Pandey and an international team of 21 researchers, including PyroLife ESRs Judith Kirschner, Kerryn Little, Carmen Rodríguez, Hugo Lambrechts and Simona Dossi, have been awarded the Atlas Award 2024 dedicated to Climate Action for their impactful research article, “A global outlook on increasing wildfire risk: Current policy situation and future pathways”, published in the journal Trees, Forests and People. This significant recognition highlights the urgency of addressing wildfire risks globally, particularly in the context of climate change. Organised and sponsored by the academic publishing company Elsevier, the Atlas Award honours outstanding research with the […]
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3 Job offers in the PyroLife ITN

Job Offer
The recent wildfire seasons have been a glimpse of what to expect in the future: deadly mega-fires in Mediterranean regions and high fire activity in temperate and boreal areas outside the typical Spring fire season. We cannot solve this challenge with the old mono-disciplinary approach of fire suppression: there is a critical need to change fire management from fire resistance to landscape resilience: Living with Fire. This requires a new type of diverse experts, who not only understand fire, but who are also able to communicate risks, deal with uncertainty, and link scientific disciplines as well as science and practice. […]
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Orman yangınlarına hazır bir Kıbrıs için vizyon

Blog post
Judith Kirschner‘in bir blog yazısı Kıbrıs bugüne kadar kitlesel ölümlere yol açan trajik orman yangınlarından korunmuştur, ancak sosyal, çevresel ve iklimsel değişimler gelecekte orman yangını yönetimini daha da zorlaştıracaktır. Üst düzey orman yangını raporlarının incelenmesinden elde edilen beş tema, devlet kurumları, karar vericiler ve halk için orman yangınlarına hazırlığı iyileştirme fırsatları sunmaktadır. Ortamın hazırlanması: Kıbrıs’ta orman yangınları Kıbrıs’ın orman yangınlarına karşı daha hazırlıklı olması için bir vizyon var mı? Orman yangını artık birçok benzer yerde kaçınılmaz olarak kabul edilen bir olgudur, yani soru yangın olacak mı değil, ne zaman ve nasıl olacaktır. Bu nedenle orman yangınıyla bir arada yaşamak, orman […]
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