Eleanor Burke

Oct 25, 2024 | nature.com | Chae Yeon Park |Kiyoshi Takahashi |Shinichiro Fujimori |Thanapat Jansakoo |Chantelle Burton |Huilin Huang | +7 more

Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02149-1, published online 21 October 2024. In the version of the article initially published, in the first paragraph, the units were incorrect in the sentence “Fire smoke includes fine particulate matter with a diameter of ≤2.5 μg m–3 (PM2.5)”. This sentence has now been amended to “Fire smoke includes fine particulate matter with a diameter of ≤2.5 μm (PM2.5)” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Oct 21, 2024 | nature.com | Chantelle Burton |Seppe Lampe |Douglas Kelley |Wim Thiery |Stijn Hantson |Lukas Gudmundsson | +11 more

AbstractFire behaviour is changing in many regions worldwide. However, nonlinear interactions between fire weather, fuel, land use, management and ignitions have impeded formal attribution of global burned area changes. Here, we demonstrate that climate change increasingly explains regional burned area patterns, using an ensemble of global fire models.

Oct 21, 2024 | nature.com | Kiyoshi Takahashi |Shinichiro Fujimori |Chantelle Burton |Huilin Huang |Sian Kou-Giesbrecht |Matthias Mengel | +7 more

AbstractClimate change intensifies fire smoke, emitting hazardous air pollutants that impact human health. However, the global influence of climate change on fire-induced health impacts remains unquantified. Here we used three well-tested fire–vegetation models in combination with a chemical transport model and health risk assessment framework to attribute global human mortality from fire fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions to climate change.

Oct 3, 2024 | nature.com | Chantelle Burton |Douglas Kelley |Eleanor Burke |Camilla Mathison |Chris Jones |Richard A. Betts | +1 more

AbstractTo avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the Paris Agreement committed countries to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C by urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the Paris temperature ambitions and remaining carbon budgets mostly use models that lack feedback among fire, vegetation and carbon, which are essential for understanding the future resilience of ecosystems.