Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Extreme weather and climate change: population health and health system implications

KL Ebi, J Vanos, JW Baldwin, JE Bell… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an
expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change …

The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

M Burke, A Driscoll, S Heft-Neal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on
the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated …

Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, SC Lewis - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Heatwaves have increased in intensity, frequency and duration, with these trends projected
to worsen under enhanced global warming. Understanding regional heatwave trends has …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

M Goss, DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn
wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong …

Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States

Y Zhuang, R Fu, BD Santer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Previous studies have identified a recent increase in wildfire activity in the western United
States (WUS). However, the extent to which this trend is due to weather pattern changes …