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Sarah Meier

@same--same.bsky.social

environmental economist @ LEEP Exeter | Dragon Capital programme on biodiversity economics | musician

58 Followers  |  63 Following  |  1 Posts  |  Joined: 30.04.2025  |  1.4395

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🚨 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.

πŸ”₯ Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/

16.10.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Update: we're at over 220. If you're wondering what's next, I'll be reaching out to reporters today.

28.08.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

07.08.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 New mentoring programme for mid-career #WomeninEcon!
RES Women’s Committee & isweconomics.bsky.social launch a pilot to support women aiming for Professor roles.‬‬‬

πŸ“… Apply by 15 Sept 2025
πŸ”— bit.ly/40w08fV

#Mentoring #EconSky #MidCareer

30.07.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

31.07.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | We Study Climate Change. It Endangers You and Your Children.

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...

30.07.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...

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

11.07.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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