Newsletter Photo by Ross Stone on Unsplash Canadian wildfires have ushered in a new fire era, the ‘Pyrocene’ Humanity has changed its relationship to fire. We may never be the same.
ImpactsEU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid/Flickr Europe has descended into the age of fire Climate change has primed the landscape to burn. But human migration has made Europe’s wildfires increasingly catastrophic.
Newsletter As wildfires rage, the 'Pyrocene' Age is upon us Fire scholar Stephen J. Pyne proposes a pyrocentric view of the last 10,000 years — and warns that California’s wildfires herald a very combustible future.
Impacts www.wired.com California's wildfire and COVID-19 disasters just collided You'd be hard-pressed to dream up a nastier confluence of crises besieging California right now.
