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 …

A record 1.2 million ha burned in British Columbia, Canada's extreme wildfire season of
2017. Key factors in this unprecedented event were the extreme warm and dry conditions …

Modern advances in cloud computing and machine-leaning algorithms are shifting the
manner in which Earth-observation (EO) data are used for environmental monitoring …

We used Cumulative Severity Rating (CSR), a weather-based fire danger metric, to examine
the potential influence of climate change on global fire season severity. The potential …

Recently, the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: a Second Notice was issued in
response to ongoing and largely unabated environmental degradation due to anthropogenic …

The objective of this paper is to examine the sensitivity of fuel moisture to changes in
temperature and precipitation and explore the implications under a future climate. We use …

In contrast to the expectations of an increase in annual fire activity and the severity of fire
season due to climate change and large fires, which have been occurring in recent years, a …

Boreal forests and arctic tundra cover 33% of global land area and store an estimated 50%
of total soil carbon. Because wildfire is a key driver of terrestrial carbon cycling, increasing …

In Canadian forests, the majority of burned area occurs on a small number of days of
extreme fire weather. These days lie within the tail end of the distribution of fire weather, and …