“Study: Wildfire smoke could drive tens of thousands of deaths each year by 2050” www.axios.com/local/portla... - @axios.com #AirQuality #Health #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke

Drought sensitivity in eucalypts is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density - great work by PhD student Victoria Perez-Martinez at @deannicolle1.bsky.social Currency Creek Arboretum during the Tinderbox drought besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tuned in yesterday for an impassioned plea and delightful talk by @john-m-dwyer.bsky.social on how dry rainforest trees, including our beloved vine thickets, could be used to revegetate Brisbane's streets in the lead up to the 2032 Olympics. Lots of neat data on temp. niches!

I'm so very proud of Niger Sultana and the first chapter of her PhD thesis!!! She had so many challenges and came through them all with flying colours. With @loraxcate.bsky.social @azhar06.bsky.social et al. in @botsocamerica.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Toxic toad invasion puts ecology of Madagascar at risk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/24/madagascar-toxic-toads-lemurs-ecology-threat?CMP=share_btn_tw

1/ Invasional meltdown is a popular but nebulous concept in invasion ecology. It involves multiple direct & indirect mechanisms, yet it is rarely studied beyond simple pairwise facilitations. In a new paper, we expand the concept & offer testable hypotheses: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...

“The amount of spring rain is one of the best indicators of when you’ll hit the more severe part of the fire season,” Max Moritz @ucanr.edu said. “But the warming trend still plays a role because... plants are drying faster than in the past.” www.independent.com/2025/08/18/f...

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

We need an "In Bed" rule for extreme weather headlines, except add "Thanks to Big Oil's Avoidable Pollution." ‘We’re being cooked alive:’ Europe burns as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Thanks to Big Oil's Avoidable Pollution:

www.dw.com/en/firefight... Fire season in the northern hemisphere is well under way. This article has some sensible solutions.

Great fun working with Lyndle Hardstaff, Megan Murray, and @zoexiro.bsky.social on our latest flammability project Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests @botsocamerica.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Fight fire with food #forests: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire-smart #agroforestry systems By Ashley Pacheco, Hannah Goodman et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Citizen Scientists Are Accelerating Ecology Research, Study Suggests www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...

It's 2025, and it's still climate change driving major forest loss through wildfires. With insights from @climate-guy.bsky.social and @calxcunningham.bsky.social @ucmerced.bsky.social @utas.edu.au www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/c...

⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡ Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

The countries most affected are Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal, with temperatures nearing or topping 40C (104F).

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And if you want to have a chat about it outside of Bluesky, I've also published The Conversation piece on my Substack: predirections.substack.com/p/earths-sea...

Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.

An iconic plants of the Californian chaparral: chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum, Rosaceae). It is a flammable plant that both resprouts & recruits (from the soil seed bank) after fire, as you can see here. Los Padres NP, California 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿💚🪴 wildfire

“[It is] a collective call to action for every country, every business and every person who cares about a livable planet. Our economies, our communities, our health – none of it can survive without forests.” #wildfires #climate #forests #science #environment

‘Researchers estimate that 67,000 sq km (26,000 sq mi) of these pristine, old-growth #forests were lost in 2024 – an area nearly as large as the Republic of Ireland, or 18 football pitches a minute. #Fires were the main cause, overtaking land clearances from #agriculture…’ 1/

Given that a substantial number of people will likely read AI-based summaries of our scientific papers, how should we be adapting our writing style? Are there stylistic or structural choices that will make writing more palatable to our AI overlords?

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

(EN) Exciting new publication with the participation of @alefidelis.bsky.social. Don’t miss it! (PT) Nova publicação com a participação de @alefidelis.bsky.social. Não perca!

Check out this new #AJB essay by Jitka Klimešová, Timothy Harris & Tomáš Herben! Morphological knowledge in plant #ecology and why it matters doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

This is important research, but comes with caveats for AoNZ. Limited data from islands, and no lizards included in study. The previous research below suggests the impacts may be slower in Southern Hemisphere, as well as less severe in wetter climates. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/03/28/c...

Very excited to see this paper out! Led by @schwilk.org, with @azhar06.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @dendromecon27.bsky.social @profalistairsmith.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

‘Megafire’ — you may not like it, but you can’t avoid it. In our new paper, we argue why a clear, size-based definition (>10,000 ha) of megafire improves research, communication, and fire management globally. 🔥 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #wildfire #fire

Planting a massive chunk of public land in pines is not our solution to climate change. This is continuing short-term thinking and it's a net negative for biodiversity. Some pine is fine, but not at this scale.

Now out! Contains a review by us on fire regime changes on the Eurasian steppes following collapse and recovery of livestock systems. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

What are the ultimate factors controlling fire regimes? The case of boreal forests royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... Phil Trans Roy Soc B, @royalsociety.org With JE Keeley & @dramalamujer.bsky.social jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/04/17/t... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐🍁🌾 wildfire #philsci #ecoevo

“Major barriers include the small scale of restoration programs, high costs per hectare, and the …. vulnerability (of corals) to future heat stresses. phys.org/news/2025-04...

Much of Australia enjoys the same Mediterranean climate as LA. When it comes to bushfires, that doesn’t bode well theconversation.com/much-of-aust...

Increasing fire risks in cities worldwide under warming climate www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Japan hasn’t had a wildfire problem, and now it’s burning." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thousands evacuated as Japan's biggest fire in decades continues to burn www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great to chat to Adam Forbes about my #plantflammability research and many other things: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2g3... Thanks, Adam!

Australia had its second-hottest summer on record in 2024-25 - 1.89C warmer than the l/term average. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A century of rising CO₂ has increased photosynthesis of mature trees in tropical forests. This is our conclusion in study led by Sophie Zwartsenberg in @newphyt.bsky.social. We did novel isotope analyses in tree rings from Australia, Thailand & Bangladesh. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Meanwhile, 150,000 years ago: hunter-gatherers thrived in rain forests, once considered too harsh for early Homo sapiens to survive. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/3EThoDL 🧪

‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires, Benjamin Swift @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Depending on where you live, Ramadan can mean going 12 to 19 hours without eating or drinking anything.

Kawakawa's anti-inflammitory properties could help with diabetes and obesity - researcher

Why is water different colors in different places? An engineering professor explains: