🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25
The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.
🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
Update: we're at over 220. If you're wondering what's next, I'll be reaching out to reporters today.
Wildfire smoke akin to smoking a cigarette. What may be the long-term implications?
We track infants exposed to the 1910 Great Fire and find they were 4–14% worse off decades later occupying lower-status jobs and earning less.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Smoke may leave a lasting legacy.
🚨 New mentoring programme for mid-career #WomeninEcon!
RES Women’s Committee & isweconomics.bsky.social launch a pilot to support women aiming for Professor roles.
📅 Apply by 15 Sept 2025
🔗 bit.ly/40w08fV
#Mentoring #EconSky #MidCareer
We are collecting records of fire behaviour in the UK!
Do you have fire behaviour observations (recent or historical) for a specific location, date and time? We welcome you to fill in this survey to help us to validate and improve FireInSite fire behaviour predictions.
Survey link: arcg.is/CyqWj2
Hsiang & Burke NYT op-ed on climate change (incl. citations]: "We predict that workers will become less productive, less happy & more prone to safety errors. Demands on public services will increase while the cost of servicing new debt will probably rise." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
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#ClimateChange #Wildfires
