Mastodawn

Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

“Climate change sets the stage for these disasters.”
"The number of deaths from fires was likely a gross underestimate. One database recorded 19 direct deaths from fires in Indonesia in 2015, but the resulting air pollution was implicated in about 100,000 premature deaths from respiratory problems."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/earths-wildfires-growing-in-number
#FossilFuels #disasters #fires #bushfires #smoke #pollution #FireProne #sprawl #GHG #air #climate

Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade

The Guardian

“I was left with the impression of a city and country on edge—doing its best to adapt and cope, but in general, and like many other #fire-prone regions, ill-prepared for the kind of extreme #wildfires that #climatechange is unleashing” thebulletin.org/2025/08/a-pe...

A perfect firestorm: The socia...

Athens and its suburbs have lost 37 percent of its forests and grasslands to wildfire since 2017. What will it take to keep the city from burning?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Fire prone INVASIVE grasses common in the old cane fields.

Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel grass)

https://doi.org/10.1079/cabicompendium.14502
Melinis repens and Melinis minutiflora (molasses grass)

Megathyrsus maximus (Guinea grass)

See old field boundaries in this Google map.

Intraspecific variability of #serotiny in #Pinus #banksiana

Rear-edge populations (with low #fire frequency) are less serotinous & more variably than range-core #fireprone pops where serotiny is more uniformly high, by Pelletier et al https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14041 #JEcol