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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.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
newswise.com | Jennifer K. Balch |James Randerson |Josh Roering |Andrew Vander Yacht
How do we stop the burn? - Wildfires in the US: A Growing ConcernNewswise — The recent surge in wildfires across the United States has become a pressing issue, affecting communities, ecosystems, and air quality. Wildfires' increasing frequency and intensity are alarming due to their immediate and long-term impacts. These fires pose a direct threat to human lives and properties and contribute to significant environmental and climate challenges.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
nature.com | James Randerson |Marcia N. Macedo |Douglas C. Morton |Jakob Zscheischler |Ludmila Rattis |Sonia I. Seneviratne
AbstractDeforestation and climate change are expected to alter fire regimes along the Cerrado-Amazon transition, one of the world’s most active agricultural frontiers. Here we tested the hypothesis that the time since land-use transition (age of frontier) and agricultural intensification also drive changes in the region’s fire regimes by reducing fire probability in both drought and non-drought years.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
auburnpub.com | Shane R. Coffield |James Randerson
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear to balance out a company’s carbon emissions: The company pays to protect trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from the air. The company can then claim the absorbed carbon dioxide as an offset that reduces its net impact on the climate.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
nz.news.yahoo.com | Shane R. Coffield |James Randerson
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear to balance out a company’s carbon emissions: The company pays to protect trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from the air. The company can then claim the absorbed carbon dioxide as an offset that reduces its net impact on the climate.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Shane R. Coffield |James Randerson
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear to balance out a company’s carbon emissions: The company pays to protect trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from the air. The company can then claim the absorbed carbon dioxide as an offset that reduces its net impact on the climate.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Shane R. Coffield |James Randerson
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal. On paper, carbon offsets appear to balance out a company’s carbon emissions: The company pays to protect trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from the air. The company can then claim the absorbed carbon dioxide as an offset that reduces its net impact on the climate.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
nature.com | James Randerson |Antonios Mamalakis
Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39463-9, published online 28 June 2023The original version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 1, in which the vertical axes in all panels showed the cumulative distribution function (“CDF”), i.e., the fraction of land surface area with Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) below a given threshold.
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
nature.com | James Randerson |Antonios Mamalakis
ObservationsSeasonal average sea surface temperature (SST) at 1° × 1° spatial resolution was derived from the COBE-SST2 datasets. Seasonal total precipitation over land was derived from two data sets: the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP; 2.5° × 2.5° resolution) and Global Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC; 1° × 1° resolution). The GPCP integrates analyses from satellite and gauge measurements but is only available since 1979.
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
nature.com | Chao Wu |Shane R. Coffield |Michael L Goulden |James Randerson |Anna T. Trugman
AbstractForests have considerable potential to mitigate anthropogenic climate change through carbon sequestration, as well as provide society with substantial co-benefits. However, climate change risks may fundamentally compromise the permanence of forest carbon storage.
