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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥How are transformations in rural life reshaping our relationship with fire? 5 Wildfires Centre researchers brought global perspectives to #RGSIBG2026 exploring the connections between agrarian change, fire use and wildfire. Read more 👇 centreforwildfires.org/news/rural-t...

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Rural transformations and fire: Wildfires researchers at RGS-IBG 2026 - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

5 members of the Wildfires Centre recently presented at the Royal Geographic Society IBG Annual Conference in London.

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🔥 INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY YOUTH SUMMIT 2026. Are you aged 16–30 and passionate about climate action? Join us: 📅 21 November | 2–6pm 📍 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social , London 🎟️ Find out more & register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio... #unaclimateocean

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International Climate & Sustainability Youth Summit 2026 - COP31

Water, Energy, Wildfires. Interconnected Security Challenges

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🔥Upcoming webinar, 9th Sept, 3pm BST Living with Wildfire: Imagining, Narrating and Acting upon a Changing Climate, with Aysem Mert, Stockholm University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-li... #wildfires

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Seminar: Living with Wildfire with Ayşem Mert

Living with Wildfire: Imagining, Narrating and Acting upon a Changing Climate

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Our final theme asked: what futures for the fire in the Earth system are plausible- and which should we aim for?

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Our next session is underway, asking: How can fire policymaking and management br made more integrative, equitable and adaptive? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Day 2 of the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026 started with our fourth theme, which asks the question: What consequences and trade-offs arise from fire management ans preparedness strategies? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Our third conference asked the question: How do fires impact biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our second conference theme ask the question- how does fire interect with atmospheric composition, the carbon-cycle and climate? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our summer conference is underway! We start with the question: what controls landscape burning, and how can we better anticipate and detect these events? #leverhulmewildfires2026

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Thank you to CMCC - Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici - for the fantastic collaboration for London Climate Action Week #LCAW on Wildfire Prediction and Risk Management, which we hosted at King's College London Thank you to all our fantastic speakers too.

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Global Wildfire Collective @wildfirecollective.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join the Global Wildfire Collective on June 24–25 for a foundational training in fire modeling. Learn how to match questions to models, interpret model outputs, understand model uncertainty, and make better decisions using probabilistic results. globalwildfirecollective.org/event/fire-m...

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Global Wildfire Collective @wildfirecollective.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🔥 Join the Global Wildfire Collective webinar to hear Dr. Abigail Croker discuss her research on fire in savanna ecosystems — covering climate change, decentralized management & resilience in East & Southern Africa. Register: globalwildfirecollective.org/event/wildfi...

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Join us tomorrow, 28th April, 4pm BST for this Global Wildfire Collective webinar which includes presentations from some of our Centre members, including Amos Chege Muthiuru (below). #Wildfires #bushfire #firegovernace

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Global Wildfire Collective @wildfirecollective.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🔥 Fire, savannas & global change — join us April 28 for a live webinar featuring @sallyarchibald.bsky.social exploring fire ecology, savanna ecosystems, and earth-system feedbacks. A conversation you won't want to miss! 🌿

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026 📆21- 22 July 2026 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 📋Free Registration - Deadline 9 July 🔊Call for Abstracts - Research and Art - Deadline 20 April 🌍ECR Travel Bursary 📸ECR Photography Competition 🌐Conference website: centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We have two full bursaries available to Early Career Researchers and PhD students from least developed, low & lower middle-income countries to attend and present in our summer conference in London. Find out more at our conference website. Deadline 20th April centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📢🔥We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, a collaboration between several of our Centre colleagues, led by Dr Kapil Yadav. We focus on the Kananaskis Fire Charter launched at the G7 Summit in 2025. #wildfires www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter: a good start - Nature Communications

The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter marks an important step toward addressing increasingly extreme wildfires. Attending to complex drivers, supporting Indigenous and local fire stewardship, and shifting t...

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026 📆 21- 22July 2026 Imperial College London 🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS now open - oral/ poster presentations, artwork exhibits 🌿Six themes ⏱️Abstract deadline 20 April 📋Registration opening soon (free) 🌐 Conference website: centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w... 🔥

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Join us for our latest Fire in Practice webinar on Wed 3rd Dec 2-3pm GMT, with Danny Manning and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, on Indigenous-led prescribed burning in northern California #Wildfires #Indigenous www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr...

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Fire in Practice - Indigenous-led prescribed burning in California

Join Danny Manning and Beth Rose Middleton Manning to discuss the return of cultural and Indigenous-led prescribed burning

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🔊🔥Join us for our next "Fire in Practice: Conversations with Wildfire Practitioners" webinar! When: Wed 23rd July, 10.30-11:30am (BST) (online/ in person at KCL). Speaker: Sam Johnston, International Savanna Fire Management Initiative www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr...

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Fire in Practice - International Savanna Fire Management Initiative

Join Sam Johnston for a talk on Indigenous-Led Fire Management as a Climate, Biodiversity and Cultural Solution for the World’s Savannas

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congratulations to our Centre Manager, Adriana Ford, for winning the Staff Category of the @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Competition, with her photo "Purposeful Flames", taken at the @FIRE_ADAPT Brazil Study Hub!🔥🇧🇷 imperial.ac.uk/natural-scienc…

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🔊🔥SAVE THE DATE for the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026, to be held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 21st July 2026. Watch this space for more information coming soon! #WildfireResearch #ClimateResilience #EnvironmentalScience #LeverhulmeWildfires #FireScience

Leverhule Wildfires Summer Conference 2026- Tues 21st July, at Imperial College London

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🔊Imperial College London Natural Sciences image competition exhibition, 2nd April! We're happy to represent #wildfires through Adriana Ford's shortlisted entry "Purposeful Flames' taken in Brazil in the FIRE-ADAPT project. Can't make it? View the shortlisted photos and vote here: lnkd.in/es5Z8xMA

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Latest from our Just Fire team! 🔥 New paper on global human-fire interactions led by Cathy Smith out April 2025. 🔥 ESRC grant for work on Indigenous fire knowledge in Kenya. 🔥 Congrats to Abi Croker, now Postdoc at Princeton! centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t… #WildfireResearch

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📢 Call for abstracts! Centre researchers are convening a fire modelling session at the International Congress of Fire in the Earth System — Abstract submissions welcome! 🔗 The Congress website for more information and abstract submission: firecongress.eu #Wildfires #fire

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just a few days to go to apply for this exciting PhD opportunity at the Centre on environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social NB International fees are covered, so it's open worldwide!

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📢New blog post by our Centre member Farrer Owsley-Brown @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #wildfires - how potassium in biomass could improve emissions estimates

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The room was almost overspilling at the Geography departmental seminar today @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social such was the interest in Doug Kelley's (from CEH) talk about the State of Wildfires. #wildfires You can view the latest report here: essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Our Centre Associate Director Prof Apostolos Voulgarakis @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social contributes to this Time magazine article on the #LAwildfires, where he explains the role of the dry Santa Ana winds and climate change #wildfires time.com/7205622/cali...

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The Conditions that Led to the L.A. Fires

Climate change has exacerbated the size, intensity, and damage caused by the wildfires.

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Congratulations to our Associate Director, Prof Martin Wooster at King's College London, for being made an MBE for his contribution to wildfire science! 👏🥳 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-e...

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King's expert in wildfires and satellite imaging awarded MBE in New Year Honours

Recognition for researcher who helped bring global attention to landscape fire and smoke

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Luke Richardson-Foulger @lukemrf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hello World! I'm Luke, a PhD student at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, NCEO, & @centrewildfires.bsky.social studying peatland wildfires 🔥🌿: their emissions, climate impact, and human health effects. My work utilises infrared remote sensing, earth observation, and a lot of soil.

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Missed our recent webinars on fire management in Ghana and Mexico? Fear not, you can watch the recordings online! #wildfires #climate ##firemanagement youtu.be/WJ93hYb1jAk?...

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Fire in Practice Godwin Dzekoto Collaborative fire management in Ghana

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🔉🔥Our second free webinar this week is on Wed 27th Nov 14:30-15:30 "Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches", with Godwin Dzekoto from A Rocha Ghana www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr... #wildfire #firemanagement

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Fire in Practice - Collaborative Fire Management in Ghana

Join Godwin Dzekoto from A Rocha Ghana on integrating historical fire practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative fire management

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🔉🔥We have two webinars this week - please register for free on Eventbrite! The first is on Mexico's challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management by Christoph Neger and Laura Ponce Calderón Tues 26th Nov 16:00-17:00 GMT #wildfires #IFM www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leverhulme...

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Leverhulme Wildfires Guest Webinar on integrated fire management in Mexico

Join this webinar with Christoph Neger (UNAM) and Laura Ponce (ECOSUR) on Mexico’s path towards integrated and intercultural fire management

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Next up we have Dr Balasubramanyan Chandramoham from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and COP29 Observer, highlighting small island states and young people in COP29 and #climatechange #climate #climateyouthsummit

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The talk we shared by Dr Joyce Kimutai from @granthamicl.bsky.social at our UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, is available on YouTube - do check it out. #climate #flooding #climateyouthsummit youtu.be/huc3aTFOybM

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13 Joyce Kimutai | Floods

YouTube video by Casina Pio IV

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Now up at the UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, our very own Prof. Apostolos Voulgarakis from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and Technical University of Crete, talking about #wildfires and #climate #climateyouthsummit

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, co-hosted by our Centre, is underway @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social with insightful talks by Sir Jim Skea, Chair of @ipcc.bsky.social & Dr Carl Wright, Secretary General Emeritus Commonwealth Local Government #climateyouthsummit #climatechange

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Only a couple of hours until the UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, which we are co-hosting at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social with United Nations Association Climate and Oceans. #climateyouthsummit We plan to livestream it here starting at 13.30 GMT: www.youtube.com/@unitednatio...

Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, COP29 fringe, London.
Join us to hear from leading experts in research and business as they discuss COP29 and share the latest insights.on Climate action

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We very much enjoyed the UK Wildfires 2O24 conference in Aberdeen this week! Thank you @firebreak03.bsky.social and all the organisers and sponsors, and of course all the presenters for their informative talks. Hopefully UK fire community will connect on BlueSky 😊🔥

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello! We have just joined Blue Sky, and those who don't know us, we do interdisciplinary global wildfires research!🔥 Funded from 2019-2029 by the Leverhulme Trust, and based out of London, UK. We are looking forward to connecting with existing contacts and new people!

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