Greenland, the land of ice and snow, is burning

Greenland, the land of ice and snow, is burning

This is going to sound weird, but there’s a wildfire right now in west Greenland. You know, that huge island of mostly ice? Part of it is on fire. There’s been nothing even close to this since reliable satellite-based fire detection records began in Greenland in 2000....
Countering the health effects of peat fires

Countering the health effects of peat fires

From social media–based applications to face masks, a range of efforts are being instituted to tackle the causes and effects of toxic haze in Indonesia For the past 360 million years, waterlogged land areas of our planet have been covered with the dense black decay of...
WOF firefighters to assist with Nirox burn

WOF firefighters to assist with Nirox burn

On 20 May 2017, Hannelie Coetzee will direct the second Art/Science #FireGrazer performance at the NIROX Sculpture Park, in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand scientists, Sally Archibald (Ecologist) and James Harrison (Entomologist), Working on Fire...