The 2023 wildfire season in Québec set records due to extreme warm and dry conditions,
burning 4.5 million hectares and indicating persistent and escalating impacts associated …

Climate change is exacerbating wildfire conditions, but evidence is lacking for global trends
in extreme fire activity itself. Here we identify energetically extreme wildfire events by …

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 …

Abstract The “Great Acceleration” of the mid-20th century provides the causal mechanism of
the Anthropocene, which has been proposed as a new epoch of geological time beginning …

Samples of brown carbon (BrC) material were collected from smoke emissions originating
from wood pyrolysis experiments, serving as a proxy for BrC representative of biomass …

Large and intense wildfires are an integral part of many Canadian landscapes, playing a
critical role in ecosystem dynamics. However, the recent catastrophic fire seasons have …

Fire is an integral natural disturbance in the moist temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest
of the United States, but future changes remain uncertain. Fire regimes in this climatically …

Fuels within the immediate vicinity of a house (eg, within 30–60 m), referred to as the 'home-
ignition zone', are important determinants of structure damage during wildfires. Methods for …

In 2023, all regions of British Columbia (BC) experienced record-breaking fire weather and
wildfires, with extreme behavior and social-ecological effects. In total, 2245 wildfires burned …