The frightening wildfires afflicting Europe during bouts of extreme heat this summer are a scourge that experts say the world can expect to see more of in the future, but prevention and growing public awareness around climate change can help what has become an enduring challenge.
This article looks at recent research published in Communications Biology, which looks at the climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests.
January 2021 marked the beginning of the Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development , proclaimed by the United Nations, which will last until the end of 2030.
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Few can recall a year as disruptive and chaotic as 2020. With the year suffocated by COVID-19 woes, it feels like a lifetime ago we were watching the horrific images emerge from Australia between July 2019 and February 2020, when the Black Summer fires engulfed significant swathes of the country s east and south-west, following one of the hottest and driest 12 months on record.
In total, over 15,000 fires broke out – two of these, in New South Wales, burned more land in the state than any fire season during the last 20 years (Filkov
et al 2020) – and 21% of Australia s temperate forests burned (Boer