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

Canadian boreal woodlands and forests cover approximately 3.09× 106 km2, located within
a larger boreal zone characterized by cool summers and long cold winters. Warming since …

The 2023 wildfire season in Canada was unprecedented in its scale and intensity, spanning
from mid-April to late October and across much of the forested regions of Canada. Here, we …

The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than
seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades. Here …

Extreme fire seasons characterised by very large'mega-fires' have demonstrably increased
area burnt across forested regions globally. However, the effect of extreme fire seasons on …

Contemporary fire regimes of Canadian forests have been well documented based on forest
fire records between the late 1950s to 1990s. Due to known limitations of fire datasets, an …

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 …

Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the
combustion of soil organic matter,–. During each fire, a portion of this soil beneath the …

Fires have influenced atmospheric composition and climate since the rise of vascular plants,
and satellite data have shown the overall global extent of fires. Our knowledge of historic fire …

Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …