Heat Records Fall in the Arctic as Fires Erupt in Sweden and Siberia
This article describes the devastating wildfires in Scandinavia and Siberia in summer 2018 due to an unprecedented heatwave that swept across the Arctic Circle.Read More →
Future Changes in Event Attribution Methodologies
This report covers a range of events, including rain storms, droughts, tropical storms, and wildfires, as well as heat waves. Read More →
Anthropogenic Forcings and Attributed Changes in Fire Risk in Western North America and Australia During 2015/16
This study finds that for 2015/16 that human influences quintupled the risk of extreme vapor pressure deficits (VPD) for western North America and increased the risk for extratropical Australia. Read More →
Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States
Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States (PNAS)Read More →
2017 Montana Climate Assessment
This assessment reports on climate trends and their consequences for three of Montana’s vital sectors: water, forests, and agriculture.Read More →
Attributing extreme fire risk in Western Canada to human emissions
This peer-reviewed article applies an event attribution framework to quantify the influence of human-created greenhouse gas emissions on extreme fire risk in the current climate of a western Canada.Read More →
Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire Across Western US Forests
This article uses modeled climate projections to estimate the contribution of anthropogenic climate change to observed increases in eight fuel aridity metrics and forest fire area across the western United States.Read More →
Detecting the Effect of Climate Change on Canadian Forest Fires
This report shows that human‐induced climate change has had a detectable influence on the area burned by forest fire in Canada over recent decades. Read More →