#megafires — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #megafires, aggregated by home.social.
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"When landscapes transition from a prolonged standard drought into a [hairdryer spell] – or when the two overlap – they create a “hyper-flammable” state. […] Combined, they cause the fire danger to skyrocket, setting the perfect stage for fast-spreading and intense wildfires."
https://theconversation.com/flash-droughts-pull-alarming-amounts-of-moisture-from-the-landscape-and-intensify-wildfires-new-research-287879
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03809-9 -
"When landscapes transition from a prolonged standard drought into a [hairdryer spell] – or when the two overlap – they create a “hyper-flammable” state. […] Combined, they cause the fire danger to skyrocket, setting the perfect stage for fast-spreading and intense wildfires."
https://theconversation.com/flash-droughts-pull-alarming-amounts-of-moisture-from-the-landscape-and-intensify-wildfires-new-research-287879
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03809-9 -
"When landscapes transition from a prolonged standard drought into a [hairdryer spell] – or when the two overlap – they create a “hyper-flammable” state. […] Combined, they cause the fire danger to skyrocket, setting the perfect stage for fast-spreading and intense wildfires."
https://theconversation.com/flash-droughts-pull-alarming-amounts-of-moisture-from-the-landscape-and-intensify-wildfires-new-research-287879
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03809-9 -
"When landscapes transition from a prolonged standard drought into a [hairdryer spell] – or when the two overlap – they create a “hyper-flammable” state. […] Combined, they cause the fire danger to skyrocket, setting the perfect stage for fast-spreading and intense wildfires."
https://theconversation.com/flash-droughts-pull-alarming-amounts-of-moisture-from-the-landscape-and-intensify-wildfires-new-research-287879
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03809-9 -
"When landscapes transition from a prolonged standard drought into a [hairdryer spell] – or when the two overlap – they create a “hyper-flammable” state. […] Combined, they cause the fire danger to skyrocket, setting the perfect stage for fast-spreading and intense wildfires."
https://theconversation.com/flash-droughts-pull-alarming-amounts-of-moisture-from-the-landscape-and-intensify-wildfires-new-research-287879
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03809-9 -
Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵
#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires
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Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵
#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires
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Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵
#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires
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Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵
#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires
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Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵
#futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse #drought #heatwaves #naturalDisasters #resilience #agriculture #megafires #wildfire #wildfires
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵
Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently!
In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen.
There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway:
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en#climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy
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#Incendie
#Megafires
Merci au Croates, Portugais, Tchèques et Slovaques pour leur solidarité européenne face à la catastrophe des feux en Gironde -
#Incendie
#Megafires
Merci au Croates, Portugais, Tchèques et Slovaques pour leur solidarité européenne face à la catastrophe des feux en Gironde -
#Incendie
#Megafires
Merci au Croates, Portugais, Tchèques et Slovaques pour leur solidarité européenne face à la catastrophe des feux en Gironde -
#Incendie
#Megafires
Merci au Croates, Portugais, Tchèques et Slovaques pour leur solidarité européenne face à la catastrophe des feux en Gironde -
#Incendie
#Megafires
Merci au Croates, Portugais, Tchèques et Slovaques pour leur solidarité européenne face à la catastrophe des feux en Gironde -
From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
#ArcticEcosystems #OceansAreLife -
From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
#ArcticEcosystems #OceansAreLife -
From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
#ArcticEcosystems #OceansAreLife -
From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
#ArcticEcosystems #OceansAreLife -
From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
#ArcticEcosystems #OceansAreLife -
#News: #Timber greed is fueling catastrophic #megafires! 🔥🌲 #Research shows dense, privately owned #timber plantations are 50% more likely to explode into #fires than public #forests. Corporate landgrabs are EVIL! ☠️ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250821004202.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
#News: #Timber greed is fueling catastrophic #megafires! 🔥🌲 #Research shows dense, privately owned #timber plantations are 50% more likely to explode into #fires than public #forests. Corporate landgrabs are EVIL! ☠️ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250821004202.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
#News: #Timber greed is fueling catastrophic #megafires! 🔥🌲 #Research shows dense, privately owned #timber plantations are 50% more likely to explode into #fires than public #forests. Corporate landgrabs are EVIL! ☠️ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250821004202.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
#News: #Timber greed is fueling catastrophic #megafires! 🔥🌲 #Research shows dense, privately owned #timber plantations are 50% more likely to explode into #fires than public #forests. Corporate landgrabs are EVIL! ☠️ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250821004202.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
After devastating wildfires, watersheds are surprisingly thick with #fish and amphibians https://phys.org/news/2025-12-devastating-wildfires-watersheds-thick-fish.html
Following #megafires fishes thrive and #amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds: Allison Swartz et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02893-y
"In the aftermath of historically severe #wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates are doing surprisingly well, highlighted by flourishing fish populations"
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After devastating wildfires, watersheds are surprisingly thick with #fish and amphibians https://phys.org/news/2025-12-devastating-wildfires-watersheds-thick-fish.html
Following #megafires fishes thrive and #amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds: Allison Swartz et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02893-y
"In the aftermath of historically severe #wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates are doing surprisingly well, highlighted by flourishing fish populations"
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After devastating wildfires, watersheds are surprisingly thick with #fish and amphibians https://phys.org/news/2025-12-devastating-wildfires-watersheds-thick-fish.html
Following #megafires fishes thrive and #amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds: Allison Swartz et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02893-y
"In the aftermath of historically severe #wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates are doing surprisingly well, highlighted by flourishing fish populations"
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After devastating wildfires, watersheds are surprisingly thick with #fish and amphibians https://phys.org/news/2025-12-devastating-wildfires-watersheds-thick-fish.html
Following #megafires fishes thrive and #amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds: Allison Swartz et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02893-y
"In the aftermath of historically severe #wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates are doing surprisingly well, highlighted by flourishing fish populations"
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Low fire risk landscapes
Challenging the norm of prescribed burning* "Research shows long-unburnt forests act to limit fire without human intervention – even as the climate changes."
"Would it be worth removing the short-term defence of prescribed burning to bring forests back to a less flammable state?"
"In our new study, we examined whether phasing out prescribed burning could help Australian forests endure climate change. The answer was clear: it’s entirely possible to stop the cycle of fire feeding more fire, and help forests endure new climatic conditions."
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https://theconversation.com/in-1939-a-royal-commission-found-burning-forests-leads-to-more-bushfires-but-this-cycle-of-destruction-can-be-stopped-269099* Are the alternative ecosystem states produced by positive fire-flammability feedbacks reversible? Philip J Zylstra and David B Lindenmayer 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 124037DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
#fires #bushfires #Megafires #PrescribedBurning #BritishColonialism #pastoralism #loggingImpacts #climate #GHG #forests #destruction #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation -
Low fire risk landscapes
Challenging the norm of prescribed burning* "Research shows long-unburnt forests act to limit fire without human intervention – even as the climate changes."
"Would it be worth removing the short-term defence of prescribed burning to bring forests back to a less flammable state?"
"In our new study, we examined whether phasing out prescribed burning could help Australian forests endure climate change. The answer was clear: it’s entirely possible to stop the cycle of fire feeding more fire, and help forests endure new climatic conditions."
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https://theconversation.com/in-1939-a-royal-commission-found-burning-forests-leads-to-more-bushfires-but-this-cycle-of-destruction-can-be-stopped-269099* Are the alternative ecosystem states produced by positive fire-flammability feedbacks reversible? Philip J Zylstra and David B Lindenmayer 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 124037DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
#fires #bushfires #Megafires #PrescribedBurning #BritishColonialism #pastoralism #loggingImpacts #climate #GHG #forests #destruction #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation -
Low fire risk landscapes
Challenging the norm of prescribed burning* "Research shows long-unburnt forests act to limit fire without human intervention – even as the climate changes."
"Would it be worth removing the short-term defence of prescribed burning to bring forests back to a less flammable state?"
"In our new study, we examined whether phasing out prescribed burning could help Australian forests endure climate change. The answer was clear: it’s entirely possible to stop the cycle of fire feeding more fire, and help forests endure new climatic conditions."
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https://theconversation.com/in-1939-a-royal-commission-found-burning-forests-leads-to-more-bushfires-but-this-cycle-of-destruction-can-be-stopped-269099* Are the alternative ecosystem states produced by positive fire-flammability feedbacks reversible? Philip J Zylstra and David B Lindenmayer 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 124037DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
#fires #bushfires #Megafires #PrescribedBurning #BritishColonialism #pastoralism #loggingImpacts #climate #GHG #forests #destruction #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation -
Low fire risk landscapes
Challenging the norm of prescribed burning* "Research shows long-unburnt forests act to limit fire without human intervention – even as the climate changes."
"Would it be worth removing the short-term defence of prescribed burning to bring forests back to a less flammable state?"
"In our new study, we examined whether phasing out prescribed burning could help Australian forests endure climate change. The answer was clear: it’s entirely possible to stop the cycle of fire feeding more fire, and help forests endure new climatic conditions."
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https://theconversation.com/in-1939-a-royal-commission-found-burning-forests-leads-to-more-bushfires-but-this-cycle-of-destruction-can-be-stopped-269099* Are the alternative ecosystem states produced by positive fire-flammability feedbacks reversible? Philip J Zylstra and David B Lindenmayer 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 124037DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
#fires #bushfires #Megafires #PrescribedBurning #BritishColonialism #pastoralism #loggingImpacts #climate #GHG #forests #destruction #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation -
Low fire risk landscapes
Challenging the norm of prescribed burning* "Research shows long-unburnt forests act to limit fire without human intervention – even as the climate changes."
"Would it be worth removing the short-term defence of prescribed burning to bring forests back to a less flammable state?"
"In our new study, we examined whether phasing out prescribed burning could help Australian forests endure climate change. The answer was clear: it’s entirely possible to stop the cycle of fire feeding more fire, and help forests endure new climatic conditions."
>>
https://theconversation.com/in-1939-a-royal-commission-found-burning-forests-leads-to-more-bushfires-but-this-cycle-of-destruction-can-be-stopped-269099* Are the alternative ecosystem states produced by positive fire-flammability feedbacks reversible? Philip J Zylstra and David B Lindenmayer 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 124037DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
#fires #bushfires #Megafires #PrescribedBurning #BritishColonialism #pastoralism #loggingImpacts #climate #GHG #forests #destruction #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation -
Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology -
Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology -
Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology -
Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology -
Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
>>
https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology -
The discussion on #megafires continues ...
Megafire (>10,000 ha), Gigafire (>100,000 ha). Terafire (>1,000,000 ha)
Do these definitions serve a useful purpose? - Time will tell ...Megafire—you may not like it, but you cannot avoid it. Linley et al. #GEB
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.70032Megaflood, megatsunami, megaquake, megafauna, megacity, megaspore, megalith, megadune, ...
