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Science and art to tackle wildfires
Yesterday, March 10, the first session of the interdisciplinary Pyroecologies conference was held at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), where the Pau

EGIF Ecuador Project: response, prevention and education in the face of forest fires
February 18, 2025 marked the beginning of the EGIF Ecuador (Forest Fire Management Team) project that will be developed over the next two months to

FIRE-SCENE starts to enhance wildfire risk management and governance
The project FIRE-SCENE – ‘Advancing wildfire Civil Protection scenarios into risk planning and governance’ has started this week. FIRE-SCENE aims to develop novel procedures and

PyroLife consolidates the first European doctoral programme on Integrated Fire Management
The European project PyroLife, an Innovative Training Network, successfully concluded in December. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Horizon2020 programme, PyroLife has

The ‘Foc i Biodiversitat’ project starts to conserve and enhance the resilience of the Alta Garrotxa Protected Natural Area
Today, the kick-off meeting of the ‘Foc i Biodiversitat‘ project took place in Beget (Camprodon), attended by the Director General of Environmental Policies and Natural

Boosting climate resilience in the Barcelona Metropolitan Areas
Funded by the European Union, the CARMINE project is accelerating efforts to strengthen climate resilience in metropolitan communities across Europe. By providing tools, strategies and

EduFire Toolkit: open educational resources to learn about wildfires in secondary education
The EduFire Toolkit project, funded by the European Union within the Erasmus+ programme, has successfully concluded this October. The aim of this project has been

Advocating for enhancing landscape resilience with ResAlliance at the 8th Mediterranean Forest Week
As part of the consortium of the ResAlliance project, we participated in the 8th Mediterranean Forest Week (8th MFW) to foster dialogue on ways to

Pyrocumulus and Pyrocumulonimbus: the clouds of wildfires
As is well known, weather can increase the risk of wildfires and make it more difficult to extinguish them. But the relationship between fire and

How is a wildfire emergency managed and who are the actors involved?
In the Mediterranean, wildfires are more frequent in the summer. High temperatures, heat waves and warm winds cause vegetation to dry out and burn easily,

What relationship do extreme wildfires have with climate change?
The latest extreme wildfires in Portugal (2017), California (2018), Tenerife (2023) and Chile (2024), among others, with thousands of hectares burned, have taken place during

We join Desbosiguem! to maintain the open spaces and reduce the risk of wildfire in the Pyrenees
Last week, the kick-off meeting of the cross-border project POCTEFA – Desbosiguem! took place, in which the Pau Costa Foundation participates together with the Parc