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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed the interview too. They were hellbent on having a small fire, which was hilariously impossible as it was in the depth of winter with frost and snow!

Blocked?! There’s a YouTube version too; can you access that? youtu.be/x1fcRsAFQ8I?...

The Age of Fire | ARTE.tv Documentary

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · 3d

🎬🎥 Neuer Dokumentarfilm: Wie viel Feuer braucht die Erde? 🔥🌍 Anfang dieses Jahres interviewte die ARTE-Wissenschaftssendung „42: Die Antwort auf fast alles“ mich, Stephen Pine und Kirsten Thonicke zur aktuellen #Waldbrandkrise. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

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Wie viel Feuer braucht die Erde? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Menschen sind die einzige Spezies, die Feuer erzeugen kann. Lange lebten sie sehr eng mit ihm: Es wärmte sie, brannte Dachziegel, schmolz Eisen. Doch inzwischen ist die Beziehung gekippt. Feuer gilt a...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · 3d

🎬📽️ New documentary: The Age of Fire 🔥🌍 Earlier this year, the ARTE science show '42: The Answer to Almost Everything' interviewed me, Stephen Pine and Kirsten Thonicke about the current #wildfire crisis. How can we learn to coexist with fire (again)? www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

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42: The Answer to Almost Everything - The Age of Fire - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English

Humans are the only species that can produce fire. For a long time, we lived intimately with fire, which helped our development. But today fire seems like a destroyer, with ever more intense wildfires...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · 6d

It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project at ETH Zürich. Fieldwork and collaborations continue unabated. You can read more about the move to #ETHZ and other research activities this summer in this blog post: christineeriksen.com/2025/10/03/i...

It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project!

As of October 1, 2025, the FiRES project has a new institutional home at ETH Zürich. I am excited to be back in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, which is hosting the FiR…

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Aug 31

The PLANAT.ch Committee met in Ticino last week, in part to learn from the hard-won lessons of the devastating floods/ rockslides in Maggia valley last summer. Seeing the damage and ongoing efforts to rebuild left a deep impression. This article describes it well: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔔Hot off the press📣 This paper is part of Rachel Reimer’s PhD on #risk management and #psychological safety in the mountain guiding and avalanche profession. It shows how human-caused hazards negatively impact physical safety in the profession. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lgxI_GvEq...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Again and again the USFS asked its own researchers how to better protect wildland firefighters, and they came back with the same recommendation: Give them masks. Still, leadership held off. Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous #wildfire #smoke really is. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California.

Link to the actual study by Madakumbura et al. (2025) in @aaas.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California

Anthropogenic warming accelerates wildfire season onset in California.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Aug 8

NYT: "The study rules out 2 factors that might be behind the shift: buildup of vegetation and changes in the number of fires ignited by humans."

My note: to understand wildfire risk, you need to understand how climatic, demographic and land-use changes are entwined.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/c...

As Earth Warms, California Fire Season Is Starting Earlier, Study Finds

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Aug 8

🧵California's fire season now starts up to 6 weeks earlier than in 1990. Although the population has ⬆️27% since then, human-ignited fires have dropped. Instead, the most significant factors are climate-related: earlier snowmelt, drying soils + more flammable vegetation as average temperatures rise.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · Aug 8

The start of California's fire season has moved up 6 weeks since 1990 thanks to climate change

A new study shows that since 1990, fire season is arriving up to two months earlier across many parts of California.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · Aug 8

The start of California's fire season has moved up 6 weeks since 1990 thanks to climate change

A new study shows that since 1990, fire season is arriving up to two months earlier across many parts of California.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Jul 10

Crying Glaciers: beautiful and heartbreaking Op-Doc by filmmaker Lutz Stautner and artist Ludwig Berger recording the sounds of the melting Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland in an effort to capture the sounds of a disappearing environment. (via The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

Opinion | The Last Words of a Dying Glacier

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jun 19

☢️New commentary in Geo!☢️

'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean hazards, unfolding catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation' by @drceriksen.bsky.social & Gregory L. Simon

This piece unpacks the governance & management of earthquakes & nuclear waste repositories.

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Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Christine Eriksen & Gregory L. Simon (2025) entitled 'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean hazards, unfolding catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation' with an orange banner at the top.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Jun 13

Hot off the press 🚨 'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean #hazards, unfolding #catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation', free to access in GEO: #Geography and #Environment: dx.doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Thank you to @snsf.ch and @rgsibg.bsky.social for supporting this collaborative work.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Please join us tomorrow/Thursday 5 June if you are in Geneva for the #GP2025 #DRR. At 12:45, our learning lab will focus on drought preparedness and wildfire management in Switzerland.

Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · May 27

🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 In this collaborative workshop paper, we argue for the need to move from rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management. With financial support from @snsf.ch and @unibe.ch, the paper is free to access online in IJDRR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management

Despite widespread critique, the established notion of sequential disaster management phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) continues …

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · May 8

Photographer Phil Buehler captures beauty amidst the devastation in the fire scar from the Eaton fire in Altadena: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Climate change is real’: devastating wildfire photography – in pictures

Artist and photographer Phil Buehler captured some of the worst-hit properties from the the Eaton fire in Altadena, Los Angeles

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Apr 29

Last week was all go for the FiRES project in Catalonia 🔥 Together with the @paucostaf.bsky.social and CareNet at @uocuniversitat.bsky.social we distributed 4000 postcards to residents who’ve been impacted by #wildfire or live in at-risk areas. Now we’re keeping our 🤞🏼 for many interesting responses.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Apr 10

Hot off the press🔥 Social resilience research on climate-related hazards: Trends, accomplishments and shortcomings. We review how research engages with communities and places exposed to climate-related hazards.Open access in @plosclimate.org funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Apr 3

“This is a climate-induced credit crunch.” Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 26

It’s that time of year when I’m asked by the Institute to contribute to the Annual Report. It made me realise that a project stock-take is well and truly overdue, as the Geographies of Disasters team has been very busy. Here's a summary of what we've been up to: christineeriksen.com/2025/03/26/p...

Project stock-take: a busy six months!

It’s that time of year when I’m asked by the Institute to contribute to the Annual Report. It made me realise that a project stock-take is well and truly overdue, as the Geographies of …

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 24

📣🔥 Survey: FiRES @unibe.ch has teamed up with @paucostaf.bsky.social and CareNet @uocuniversitat.bsky.social to study community wildfire resilience in Catalonia 🔥 Have you been impacted or live/work in an at-risk area? Please participate in CAT/ES/EN. Closes 30.6.25: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Please join us at the University of Zurich on Wednesday 26 March for the Uncertainty Symposium. In Part 2, David Bresch, Stuart Kirsch, Michael Schaepman and I will focus on environmental uncertainty and climate change: scenarios, responses and perceptions of the future. www.uzh.ch/de/events/ev...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Do you have 15+ years of fire research experience, a strong publication record, and editorial experience? The Association for Fire Ecology (@afe-fireecology.bsky.social) is seeking a new Editor-In-Chief for its international scientific journal, Fire Ecology: fireecology.org/jobs-posts/f...

Editor-in-Chief, Fire Ecology Journal — Association for Fire Ecology

The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) welcomes applicants for the esteemed position of Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for the society’s international scientific journal, Fire Ecology.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 14

For more details, check out The LA Fire Human Exposure and Long-Term Health Study (@lafirehealth.bsky.social) website. The aim is to measure which pollutants are present, at what levels and where over 10 years, along with the health impacts of the #wildfire emissions. lafirehealth.org

Home - LA Fire HEALTH Study

The wildfires in Los Angeles County in 2025 have brought devastating loss of life, homes, schools, businesses, communities, and mountain landscapes. Due to the smoke carried many miles by the plumes, ...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 14

After the LA #wildfires, clear skies conceal a 'toxic soup': "Even with only preliminary data, the researchers could say one thing with little doubt. No one should be in or near the burn zone without a mask—especially not doing any kind of exercise." Via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/w...

After Wildfires, L.A.’s Clear Skies Conceal a ‘Toxic Soup’ (Gift Article)

Scientists collecting water, air and soil samples in neighborhoods ravaged by fires say they’re concerned about long-term health risks for residents.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 1

The Reuters article draws on data from this study of the fastest-growing and most destructive #wildfires in the US (2001 to 2020) published in Science by J K Balch et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

The most destructive and deadly wildfires in US history were also fast. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily growth rates of more than 60,000 fires from 2001 to 2020 across the contiguous US. N...

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Mar 1

An average #wildfire in the US West burns up to 895 acres per day (=half a football field a minute). The Palisades fire flared up 16 times faster, burning 14,313 acres on its fastest day (7.5 football fields a minute).

Fast fires and why speed matters - via Reuters: www.reuters.com/graphics/CAL...

LA’s Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires show a larger trend in wildfire speed

The Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires were some of the fastest on record. Their destruction shows the significance of speed in wildfire preparedness.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · Feb 20

This master-planned Irvine neighborhood was left untouched by a fall 2020 wildfire amid drought and 80-mph Santa Ana winds. It could serve as a model for a more fire-resistant Los Angeles: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Could this Irvine neighborhood be the blueprint for a more fire-resistant L.A.?

Years before the L.A. fires, Orchard Hills faced a fire of its own — and came out mostly unscathed due to a long collaboration between the developer and fire department.

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Christine Eriksen @drceriksen.bsky.social · Feb 19

The University of Freiburg in Germany are advertising a Full Professorship for Fire Ecology. Deadline 6 April 2025. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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