I grew up watching my dad come home covered in soot. For most of his life, he worked as a firefighter in a natural reserve in Galicia, in northern Spain, a region of green mountains and steep terrain, almost Lord of the Rings in its landscape, but also a place where fire moves quickly and is notoriously difficult to control. Firefighting crews there are used to the fact that, to even begin work, t ...[Read More]
A trial by fire: Can we learn how to read a burning planet?
Boreal forest fire in Canada. Credit: Stefan Doerr (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
