Key message Wildfire danger and burnt areas should increase over the century in southern
Europe, owing to climate warming. Fire-prone area expansion to the north and to …

Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern
Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use …

With an increase in both global warming and the human population, forest fires have
become a major global concern. This can lead to climatic shifts and the greenhouse effect …

A record 500,000 hectares burned in Portugal during the extreme wildfire season of 2017,
with more than 120 human lives lost. Here we analyse the climatic factors responsible for the …

We used a database capturing large wildfires (> 405 ha) in the western US to document
regional trends in fire occurrence, total fire area, fire size, and day of year of ignition for 1984 …

Summer fires frequently rage across Mediterranean Europe, often intensified by high
temperatures and droughts. According to the state-of-the-art regional fire risk projections, in …

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well‐being throughout
the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad …

Wildfires increased dramatically in frequency and extent in the European Mediterranean
region from the 1960s, aided by a general warming and drying trend, but driven primarily by …

Wildfires are an integral part of Mediterranean ecosystems; humans impact on landscapes
imply changes in fuel amount and continuity, and thus in fire regime. We tested the …

Forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin are mostly situated in the north of the Basin
(mesic). In the most southern and dry areas, the forest can only exist where topography …