Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

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 …

The interaction of gradual climate trends and extreme weather events since the turn of the
century has triggered complex and, in some cases, catastrophic ecological responses …

Lightning is an indicator and a driver of climate change. Here, using satellite observations of
lightning flash rate and ERA5 reanalysis, we find that the spatial pattern of summer lightning …

Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires,
but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly constrained. Here we propose …

Attribution studies have identified a robust anthropogenic fingerprint in increased 21st
century wildfire risk. However, the risks associated with individual aspects of anthropogenic …

Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support
natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic …

Abstract Changes in climate and fire regimes are transforming the boreal forest, the world's
largest biome. Boreal North America recently experienced two years with large burned area …

Lightning is the main precursor of natural wildfires and Long-Continuing-Current (LCC)
lightning flashes are proposed to be the main igniters of lightning-ignited wildfires (LIW) …

Wildfires have been systematically studied from the early 1950s, with significant progress in
the applied computational methodologies during the 21st century. However, modern …