The abundance of charcoal in sediments has been interpreted as a 'fire history'at about
1,000 sites across the globe. This research effort reflects the importance of fire in many …

Wildfires in Siberia are documented to have increased in frequency and severity over recent
decades. However, in the absence of long-term records, it is unclear how far and why this …

Bushfires are one of the most frequent natural hazards experienced in Australia. Fires play
an important role in sha** the landscape and its ecological dynamics, but may also have …

Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United
States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on …

The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many
parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially …

Wildfire is an important system process of the earth that occurs across a wide range of
spatial and temporal scales. A variety of methods have been used to predict wildfire …

A series of publications purport to provide evidence that the Earth was subjected to an
extraterrestrial event or events at∼ 12.9 ka creating an environmental cataclysm and the …

Macroscopic charcoal analysis of lake sediment stratigraphies is a widely used approach to
reconstruct past biomass burning patterns of ecosystems. The development of fire records …

We describe a new R package, paleofire, for analysis and synthesis of charcoal time series,
such as those contained in the Global Charcoal Database (GCD), that are used to …

The hemi-boreal zone, marking North America's southern boreal forest boundary, has
evolved post-glaciation, hosting diverse ecosystems including mixed forests with savannas …