Abstract The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfire disaster in southeast Australia was
unprecedented: the extensive area of forest burnt, the radiative power of the fires, and the …

Biomass is one most abundant resource on the earth providing important energies in
support of socioeconomic development in many areas. Burning of biomass fuels comprises …

This chapter addresses the biogeochemical cycles of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
and nitrous oxide (N2O). The three greenhouse gases have increased in the atmosphere …

As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by
human influence. Humans have had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems …

Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of
the Asian region over the past century (high confidence).{24.3} Increasing numbers of warm …

Biomass burning impacts vegetation dynamics, biogeochemical cycling, atmospheric
chemistry, and climate, with sometimes deleterious socio-economic impacts. Under future …

Fire is a ubiquitous component of the Earth system that is poorly understood. To date, a
global-scale understanding of fire is largely limited to the annual extent of burning as …

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions
were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming …

We synthesize existing sedimentary charcoal records to reconstruct Holocene fire history at
regional, continental and global scales. The reconstructions are compared with the two …