This is a phenomenal paper. Up there with Cruz et al. 2012 'Anatomy of a catastrophic wildfire' in the detail and care put in

🔥New in IJWF:

Zhao et al. evaluate two common tools for estimating fine dead fuel moisture. The Wiltronics meter performed best at low FMC, while the 10-h fuel stick often underestimated moisture and responded more slowly to environmental change.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1071/WF25174
#IJWildlandFire

Trend in potential burning hours across North America

Kaiwei Luo's second paper from his PhD thesis is now available in Science Advances. A weakened diurnal weather constraint leads to longer burning hours in North America

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Infographic of OroraTech’s FOREST-2 thermal satellite showing applications including wildfire, urban heat, and climate research.

Thermal sensing extends beyond hotspots🌍

FOREST-2, developed by OroraTech, detects both active fires and lower-intensity heat sources — helping researchers better track wildfire behaviour, monitor urban heat and understand how temperature extremes evolve.

Read more🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Canadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks off Worried about wildfires sending claims soaring this year, Canada's property and casualty insurers are pushing owners to flood- and fire-proof ​homes and urging the government to take climate issues more seriously despite economic turmoil.

Canadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks off reut.rs/4tGPizG

After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change

I’m really, really pleased that this crucial work will continue www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

But if you look closely, there is a lot of biological activity: Erica australis resprouting, Narcissus_coronatus, Pterospartum tridentatum (resprouts & seedlings).
Llamas de Cabrera, Aug 2025 fire, León, Spain

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌱🍁🌴 #botany wildfire #PlantBiology

Alaska Weather Facts - Measuring Alaska's Snow YouTube video by National Weather Service Alaska Region

You know all those maps you see of snowpack conditions in the western U.S. (and Alaska)? In many cases, it is people going out there on the 1st day of each month to make the measurements. ❄️

Rockets...moon shots...

Crazy

To complement this @theguardian.com article, please see our new (very timely) paper on snow-wildfire dynamics 🔥

Image showing a map of South America with fire emission estimates from the operational Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS)

Image showing a map of South America with data from the the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite.

Satellites revealed that the 2024 Amazon fires released far more carbon we thought: up to 3 times higher!

Using a novel AI method, scientists analysed satellite data on carbon monoxide (as proxy for CO2) and found significant gaps between models/observations:

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Sometimes you can see the relevant boats

This makes me super happy because WE ACT is awesome and the Champlain Hudson Power Express is awesome!

“The only place in Canada named after a science fiction hero”

That sounds good, but please less of your smoke
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

ICYMI, the #MorrillFire (which began burning in the Nebraska Panhandle on 12 March) has burned nearly 549,000 acres -- making it the largest wildfire on record for the state of Nebraska. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #NEwx

Whoa

For math, and anything where you learn from the grind of it

Very cool and important new fire data!

Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once Firefighters combat a grass fire in Alexandra, Australia, in January. Jay Kogler / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images 

Hot, dry, windy conditions are increasingly arising in multiple regions at the same time, setting the stage for simultaneous wildfires around the world, a study shows. via @vox.com

V. cool data +: “Key unknowns include emission inventories for rockets and satellites, lack of a systematic observational survey of mesospheric metals, altitude-time ablation profiles, chemical lifetimes, particle size-composition distributions, and transport pathways into the lower stratosphere.”

I was happy to provide a quote about this very cool paper! Climate change is going to make fire-fighter sharing harder and create more transboundary smoke.

In a really original way, this paper helps to understand the underlying conditions, and how they're changing.

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.

Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality.

With @climate-guy.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social and Alison Cullen

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Federal Communications Commission 45 L Street NE Washington, DC 20554 News Media Information 202-418-0500 Internet: www.fcc.gov DA 26-113 Released: February 4, 2026 SPACE BUREAU ACCEPTS FOR FILING SPACEX'S APPLICATION FOR ORBITAL DATA CENTERS ICFS File No. SAT-LOA-20260108-00016 Comments/Petitions Due: March 6, 2026 Response to Comments/Oppositions to Petition Due: March 16, 2026 Replies to Responses/Oppositions Due: March 23, 2026 By this Public Notice, the Space Bureau (Bureau) accepts for filing and seeks comment on an application by Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (SpaceX) for a new non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) system of up to one million satellites. This satellite system will represent the "first step towards becoming a Kardashev Il-level civilization - one that can harness the Sun's full power," according to SpaceX. On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed an application seeking authority to launch and operate a new NGSO satellite system of up to one million satellites to operate as the "Space Orbital Data Center system" (System). The System will operate at altitudes ranging from 500 km to 2,000 km and in 30 degree and sun-synchronous orbit inclinations within orbital shells spanning up to 50 km each. The proposed satellites will use high-bandwidth optical inter-satellite links and conduct telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) operations.* The Bureau seeks comment on the application and the associated requests for waiver.

Really can't make this stuff up

I did not have a fast-tracked FCC application for an actual megaconstellation (1 million satellites) justified as "taking the first step towards becoming a Kardashev Il-level civilization" on my 2026 bingo card

What are we doing friends

dannnng😬

Regulations are the reason your food and water is not full of lead.

Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data When satellites eventually fall back down to Earth, they mostly burn up because of the friction caused by the atmosphere. Scientific data about this atmospheric reentry process is urgently needed to d...

Fun fact: we recently moved two satellites to meet a plane. Why? For valuable scientific data on atmospheric reentries.

Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...