Changing sounds reveal impact of Amazon fires on animal life
4 March 2021
Recordings reveal that the Brazilian Amazon sounds different after it has been burned several times, suggesting acoustic monitoring as a tool to measure ecosystem degradation
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Historic California wildfires likely to be fuelled by climate change
25 August 2020
For the fourth year in a row, California is experiencing major wildfires – probably because climate change has left the region unusually hot and dry, say researchers
Major fires hit the Amazon and the Arctic for the second year in a row
26 June 2020
This year is shaping up to be an average one for global forest fires, but the vital ecosystems of the Amazon and the Arctic are experiencing a second year of severe blazes
'Zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow
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Unprecedented Arctic fires from last summer appear to have smouldered in the underground peat of the tundra through winter and reignited this month as snow melted
Rare herb devastated by Australian bush fires saved by seed bank
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One of the largely unnoticed victims of the Australian bush fires earlier this year was clover glycine (Glycine latrobeana), a rare pea endemic to South Australia that has now been restored thanks to seeds kept at Kew Gardens
Climate change made Australian bushfires more likely, says report
4 March 2020
Australia’s recent devastating bushfires were made more likely by human-made climate change, an international team of scientists has found
Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest
24 February 2020
Australia’s recent extreme wildfires burned 5.8 million hectares of forest, destroying about one fifth of the forest biome in eastern Australia over four months
Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross
12 June 2019
With wildfires on the rise, endangered koalas are more threatened than ever, but a new treatment for burned animals offers a ray of hope. We go inside the world's only koala hospital
The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018
18 December 2018
From advances in mind reading and medical procedures to AI law enforcement and CRISPR controversy, 2018 was a year of highs and lows. Here are our highlights
Burning Planet: Fire's intriguing role throughout Earth history
23 May 2018
We view fire as a hazard, but a thought-provoking book argues it wasn’t always so – and helps us revise our thinking by looking back over geological time
