Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC; includes soot, char, black carbon, and biochar) is produced by the
incomplete combustion of organic matter accompanying biomass burning and fossil fuel …

This paper presents the generation of a global burned area map** algorithm using MODIS
hotspots and near-infrared reflectance within ESA's Fire_cci project. The algorithm is based …

This review highlights the ubiquity of black carbon (BC) produced by incomplete combustion
of plant material and fossil fuels in peats, soils, and lacustrine and marine sediments. We …

The 'Anthropocene'is now being used as a conceptual frame by different communities and in
a variety of contexts to understand the evolving human–environment relationship. However …

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the last 50 years than in
any comparable period of human history. We have done this to meet the growing demands …

In the past 30 years, the field of black carbon (BC) research has expanded broadly,
stretching from its traditional core in the atmospheric sciences into oceanography, soil …

Human ability to manipulate fire and the landscape has increased over evolutionary time,
but the impact of this on fire regimes and consequences for biodiversity and …

Biomass burning and resulting fire regimes are major drivers of vegetation changes and of
ecosystem dynamics. Understanding past fire dynamics and their relationship to these …

Human-caused environmental changes are creating regional combinations of
environmental conditions that, within the next 50 to 100 years, may fall outside the envelope …