Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions
were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming …

Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the
appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes …

Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate–weather,
fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of …

Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United
States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on …

Wildfires increased dramatically in frequency and extent in the European Mediterranean
region from the 1960s, aided by a general warming and drying trend, but driven primarily by …

Human use of land has transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the
terrestrial biosphere, a global change often described as historically recent and potentially …

Ecologists, biogeographers, and paleobotanists have long thought that climate and soils
controlled the distribution of ecosystems, with the role of fire getting only limited …

Humans have altered the Earth's land surface since the Paleolithic mainly by clearing woody
vegetation first to improve hunting and gathering opportunities, and later to provide …

The 'Anthropocene'is now being used as a conceptual frame by different communities and in
a variety of contexts to understand the evolving human–environment relationship. However …