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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏

@drtels.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at LSE Geography & Environment 🌏 environmental change & sustainability 🔥 wildfire emissions & models 🌴 tropical peatlands 👨‍🎓 innovative climate education #firstgen

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Smoke from large-scale wildfires across northern Eurasia forecast to cross the Arctic Ocean in the coming days, as fires/smoke continue over N America. #CopernicusAtmosphere Fire Emissions Watch dataviz apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissio... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Exploring international environmental artivism. New blog by Dr Felicia Liu and @drtels.bsky.social discusses how artists and researchers bridge disciplines to shape environmental action. Read here:
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Towards a Community of Practice in International Environmental Artivism - LSE Southeast Asia Blog
In the face of hostile environmental politics, what can we learn from environmental activists and artists in Southeast Asia? Drawing on deliberative workshops in Malaysia and the UK, Dr Felicia Liu…
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @drtels.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sharing this blog post I wrote back in June 2023, given that it's happening all over again! blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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The effects of Canada’s burning wildfires on New York show the shape of things to come for climate change. | LSE United States Politics and Policy
Thomas Smith argues that fossil-fuel induced climate change and irresponsible land management practices are driving more extreme, larger and more destructive fires, and that we should expect a devasta...
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Looking back at the extreme Iberian Peninsula #wildfires of August 2025, resulting in the highest EU+UK total fire emissions of the past 23 years. A short summary by me and Joe McNorton from the @ecmwf.int autumn newsletter www.ecmwf.int/en/newslette... #iiff #incendiosforestales
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Great episode of the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social This Way Up podcast on The Arctic on Fire www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-fire featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @highnorthnews.bsky.social #wildfires #ArcticFire
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The Arctic On Fire
The Arctic isn’t just warming, it’s on fire. From the record-shattering 2023 wildfire season in Canada to the zombie fires smoldering beneath the boreal forests, Arctic wildfires are reshaping landsca...
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests by @phoebeweston.bsky.social & @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social with input from @loridanielsubc.bsky.social in @environment.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ArcticFire #ArcticFires #wildfires
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Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @drtels.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
bsky.app/profile/drte... Check out this map!
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @drtels.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025. 2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record. Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations. 🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @drtels.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Grateful to reconnect on here!
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @drtels.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Sharing some fire rhythms for my first post. 36 years of AVHRR burnt area data. A regular alternating rhythm between the northern and southern tropics, and an increasingly prominent 'third-beat' in equatorial Indonesia. 🔥🛰️ #fireseason #wildfire #EO
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