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October 23, 2025
The State of Wildfires 2024–2025 report published
Climate change is driving more frequent and intense extreme wildfires around the world, posing more risks and impacts to human health and the environment. The State of Wildfires 2024–2025 report was released on 16 October 2025, supported by the TerraFIRMA project....
May 29, 2025
TerraFIRMA General Assembly, Met Office, May 2025
This year’s TerraFIRMA General Assembly was held successfully at the Met Office in Exeter on 14 and 15 May. Approximately 54 participants attended in-person, while another 20 joined online. The programme featured science talks and posters from across the breadth of TerraFIRMA, along with progress updates, breakout groups sessions, and discussions on ideas for potential future funding....
May 02, 2025
Integrating Land Surface Modelling and Machine Learning for Wildfire Prediction
In an era of AI, why does explainable machine learning still matter for wildfire prediction? ECMWF scientist Joe McNorton explores how transparency in machine learning is vital for understanding and predicting the worlds emerging extreme fire crisis. ...
April 16, 2025
TerraFIRMA at EGU25
TerraFIRMA researchers will be taking part in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU25) from Sunday 27 April until Friday 2 May 2025. ...
April 01, 2025
UK National Climate Science Partnership
The UK’s leading climate science organisations have joined forces to develop a new national alliance focused on climate solutions for society....
April 01, 2025
20 years later: Tropical ecosystems in a world without fire
Our findings suggest that the role of fire in the future of forests needs greater attention.....
March 28, 2025
TerraFIRMA General Assembly 2025
Our annual get together to discuss results and exchange ideas....
July 25, 2024
Evaluating the representation of atmospheric ammonia in UKESM1 utilising Earth Observation data
Representing nitrate aerosols in the UK Earth system model will help us understand future air quality and climate change impacts....
July 19, 2024
Climate Insights Briefing with the European Commission
Policy-relevant new findings in climate and Earth system science...
July 18, 2024
Fire’s net impact on the global carbon cycle
Transdisciplinary capacity is required to understand the challenges of fire and its impacts in a rapidly changing world....
July 17, 2024
Making Musical Marine Heat Waves
Marine Heat Waves is a sonification video of projections of the future of the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area’s marine environment. ...
December 14, 2023
Scenario Choice Impacts Carbon Allocation Projection at Global Warming Levels
We investigated the flux of carbon from the atmosphere into the land surface and the ocean for multiple models and over a range of future scenarios....