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How slow change increased California’s fire risk
The Christian Science Monitor article California’s age of megafires describes how California’s fire risk has been increased by slow changes in fire suppression (but probably not in California), climate...
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Mike Davis on California Wildfires
Political ecologist Mike Davis writing on the 2007 California Wildfires in the LRB Every year, sometimes in September, but usually in October just before Halloween, when California’s wild vegetation is...
View ArticleStephen Pyne compares California Fires and the Financial Crisis
Fire historian Stephen Pyne writes in the Tyee A Wildfire Expert Views the Money Meltdown: There are no absolute assurances that wildfire will not from time to time spill over into settlements, any...
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Mapping global fires
Global Fires : Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory: Like plants, fire activity grows and wanes in seasonal patterns. Globally, fires peak in July, August, and September, when summer’s drying...
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Stephen Pyne on the Australian fires
Photo from National Geographic American fire historian Stephen Pyne comments in The Australian on the current Australian fires in Bushfire leader becomes laggard: Australia knows better. It developed...
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Slow variables that shape bushfire resilience
Creating the perfect firestorm on the BBC writes about two of the slow variables that produce a fire situation: climate and fuel accumulation: Current climate projections point to an increase in...
View ArticleStephen Pyne on California Wildfires
ASU fire historian Stephen Pyne on current California wildfires on Island Press’s weblog. In Two fires he writes: Then: Southern California burns, 2008 Even for the literal-minded, it was hard not to...
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Fire, climate change, and the reorganization of Arctic ecosystems
Alaskan nature writer Bill Sherwonit reports on Yale Environment 360 about the complex response of Arctic ecosystems to climate change in how Arctic Tundra is Being Lost As Far North Quickly Warms:...
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Fire and the Anishinaabe
Andrew Miller and Iain Davidson-Hunt from the University of Manitoba, write about Fire, Agency and Scale in the Creation of Aboriginal Cultural Landscapes in Human Ecology (doi:...
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