Stijn Hantson

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.

Sep 25, 2024 | nature.com | Jie Zhao |Chao Yue |Stijn Hantson |Xianli Wang

AbstractClimate warming has caused a widespread increase in extreme fire weather, making forest fires longer-lived and larger1,2,3. The average forest fire size in Canada, the USA and Australia has doubled or even tripled in recent decades4,5. In return, forest fires feed back to climate by modulating land–atmospheric carbon, nitrogen, aerosol, energy and water fluxes6,7,8.

Oct 2, 2023 | nature.com | Peter B. Reich |Sarah E. Hobbie |Corli Coetsee |Edmund C. February |KATERINA GEORGIOU |César Terrer | +9 more

AbstractThe determinants of fire-driven changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) across broad environmental gradients remains unclear, especially in global drylands. Here we combined datasets and field sampling of fire-manipulation experiments to evaluate where and why fire changes SOC and compared our statistical model to simulations from ecosystem models.