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🔥 Breakthrough from our Climate Team! - Developing the first general ignition probability curve for all peat types, a new climate forecast model. - Journal paper in progress and a presentation at EGU 2025 for submission in Summer. 🔗Read more: centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t…

🌿 Air Quality & Fire Management Update ! Our team has been working with partners in Thailand & Laos on a British Council-funded project to improve air quality monitoring and fire management. 🔗 Read more: centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t…

🔥Fire Info Team Update ! The EOCIS project wraps up with new advances in wildfire emissions research! Using geostationary satellites, Zixia Liu (KCL) and team have produced independent fire-related CO estimates based on fire radiative power (FRP) data. centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t…

Latest from our Just Fire team! 🔥 New paper on global human-fire interactions led by Cathy Smith out April 2025. 🔥 ESRC grant for work on Indigenous fire knowledge in Kenya. 🔥 Congrats to Abi Croker, now Postdoc at Princeton ! centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t… #WildfireResearch

2 PhD opportunities available with one of our centres Supervisors, Francesco Restuccia, at King’s College London. They will be funded through ERC and present a brilliant opportunities with an equally brilliant supervisor! findaphd.com/phds/project/w… #wildfires #climatechange #ERC

🔊🔥SAVE THE DATE for the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026, to be held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 21st July 2026. Watch this space for more information coming soon! #WildfireResearch #ClimateResilience #EnvironmentalScience #LeverhulmeWildfires #FireScience

Congratulations to our Centre Manager, Adriana Ford Imperial Life Sciences, for winning the Staff Category of the Imperial College London Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Competition, with her photo "Purposeful Flames", taken at the FIRE-ADAPT Brazil Study Hub!🔥🇧🇷 imperial.ac.uk/natural-scienc…

📢🔥New publication just out, co-authored by our Centre member Amos Muthiuru (Amos chege) and lead authored by Naftal Kariuki, recipient of the centre’s travel bursary, for the centre’s 2023 Summer Conference. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.118… #WildfireResearch #FireEcology

Wildfires, Tall Timber & Battery Fires? Combustion science is at a crossroads with climate change and safety. This is my 2021 invited talk on how fire science must evolve to meet today’s challenges. youtu.be/nd4rA5fTN3A?si…

Fantastic news from our team at King's College London 🎉 Farrer Owsley-Brown has successfully defended his PhD on smoke characteristics of landscape fires using lab, airborne, and satellite infrared remote sensing. Supervisors: Martin Wooster & Rob Francis Funding: The London NERC DTP

Our Centre member James Millington has recently been out to Serranía de Cuenca visiting Monika Moreu-Vicente and Francisco Seijo to examine integrated fire management in the area. Thank you Fundación Los Maestros and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 🔗Read more about them in the news: eldiario.es/castilla-la-ma…

🔥 New paper out! “Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales” Congratulations to our centre members Professor Sandy Harrison, Dr. Olivia Haas, Dr Luke Sweeney, Guoxi Zhang and co-authors. 📄 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…

Our latest blog: Our Planet’s Vital Signs: The Importance of Thermal Imaging, shares insights from Prof. Martin Wooster on our changing planet. Thermal imaging is the visual design that has housed our exhibition Vital Signs which closes soon - on 17 May. london.sciencegallery.com/blog/the-impor…

🎙️ Just wrapped a fantastic conversation diving deep into urban wildfires and their surprising threats. The conversation took some fascinating turns, especially when we explored: "How a single heat wave can trigger unprecedented wildfire outbreaks in a city like London." Can't

New paper led by Kerryn Little with Leverhulme Wildfires members outlines 3 top research priorities for fire science across the UK & US. Part of Philosophical Transactions B's theme on novel fire regimes. Read: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2… #WildfireScience #ClimateChange #FireRegimes

🔥 New research led by Centre member Theo Keeping 🔥🌎, with Colin Prentice & Sandy Harrison, shows why future wildfire projections must account for both climate variability & fire randomness. 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2… #Wildfire #ClimateChange #LeverhulmeWildfireCentre

🔥 New publication led by Cathy Smith with Oliver Perkins, Jay Mistry, Bibiana Bilbao, Kayla de Freitas, James Millington and co-authors! The Global Fire Use Survey (GFUS) gathers insights from 311 experts on how & why people use fire. 📖 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2… #Wildfire #GFUS

🔥 New paper out! Led by Roger Puig-Gironès & Marina Palmero-Iniesta, with our Associate Director Prof. Sandy Harrison, this study proposes how fire management can evolve to protect biodiversity under novel fire regimes. Read the full article: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…

🦋 New study: Wildfire smoke speeds up butterfly flight. Vanessa cardui flew 52% faster in smoky air — likely an escape response to particulates. Led by centre member Yanan Liu, and including Mark Grosvenor & Martin Wooster. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.envp… #WildfireScience

Dr. Will Hayes (Dr Will Hayes), Prof. Jay Mistry & Dr. Kayla de Freitas have launched a new project on sustainable fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana—centering Indigenous ecological knowledge & community collaboration. #Guyana #LeverhulmeWildfires #Fireresearch