Traditional fire use is declining globally – here's why that's a problem

By Cathy Smith, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Royal Holloway University of London
Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Professor of Environmental Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
Ol Perkins, PhD Candidate in Environmental Modelling, King's College London

Greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb, and so you might expect more of Earth’s surface to be engulfed by fires each year. But satellite data shows that the reverse is true: the area of the world’s land burned by fires shrank in recent decades.

That might not be a good thing, though. Our…

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