Matt Jones

Thanks! 😁

What’s the source of that info, David? For my records 🤓

@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social

Honoured to receive the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography for research on pyrogeography, #wildfires, Earth system science, and #climate change impacts.

So grateful for the mentorship, collaboration, and shared curiosity that make this work possible. I owe a lot of people a lot of beer! 🙂

Thanks Mark!!! :)

An incredible effort, only made possibly by an incredible global network of fire scientists!

Some folk on Bluesky: @pyrogeog.bsky.social @marco-turco.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Be sure to check out our key messages report, which not only covers our global findings but also includes a regional breakdown of the wacky wildfire events of the fire season.

stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/

🚨 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/

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Well this has to go straight on the recommended reading list for people entering the field… or just seeking to broaden their fire knowledge! 😁

@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Seyd Teymoor Seydi and @mojisadegh.bsky.social for leading this comprehensive global assessment of changing #wildfire risks to society.

And a fantastic international team
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social @mhurteau.bsky.social +++

From #migration and the expansion of #agriculture to #urbanisation and rural depopulation, the contact between people and #nature is changing in distinct ways across regions.

The paper highlights the fascinating regional stories behind the regional trends.

Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

🔥 Our new research in @science.org shows that people are increasingly exposed to fires globally, driven by overlapping shifts in where #fires occur and where people live.

But changes in exposure vary hugely by region and are shaped by different population dynamics.👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social @marco-turco.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social @emilywilliams.bsky.social

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 highlight the need for act...

🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Public access to the records here: zenodo.org/records/1337...

@paulomfernandes.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social @terciastrydom.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social + many more! ... Need my co-authors to follow me on here! ;)

A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx

New study from my group with stellar international team.

A multi-national dataset of prescribed #fires compiled and standardised from national records, with contemporaneous #weather conditions, land cover, fuel bed type, ++, included with each record.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions!

We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Global and local papers are welcomed but #geography is at the heart of the journal - studies should emphasise how their findings or ideas scale to broader regional geographies.

Read more about our aims & scope here:

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions!

We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Adverse wildfire conditions will resurge somewhat today (very low humidity & stronger winds, though not as bad as Tue) across SoCal. Unfortunately, another period of offshore winds now appears likely next week as well. No rain next 10 days. #CAwx #CAfire #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:

Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Map of global land showing gridded data of changes in Fire Weather Season Length, with increases of over 40 days per year in south-western North America, much of South America, eastern and southern Africa, south-eastern Europe and central and eastern Australia. Hardly anywhere has a decreased fire season length.

Southern California now sees longer fire weather seasons, like many other places worldwide

Human-caused climate change means hot, dry, windy conditions happen more often, priming landscapes to burn more easily if ignition occurs

Matt Jones et al 2022 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...