Sadegh and Seydi publish wildfire analysis findings in The Conversation

Mojataba Sadegh, an affiliate professor of civil engineering, and Seyd Teymoor Seydi, a analysis assistant, revealed “Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning globally – here’s why” with University of California, Merced co-author John Abatzoglou in The Conversation on Aug. 21, 2025.

This article options analysis the group revealed in Science:

An excerpt from the article reads:

“With intense, harmful fires usually within the information, it will probably appear to be extra land is burning. And in components of the world, together with western North America, it’s.

Globally, nonetheless, our group of fireplace researchers additionally discovered that the overall space burned really declined by 26% over these 20 years.

How is that potential?

We discovered the driving causes for these modifications in Africa, which has the overwhelming majority of all land burned, however the complete burned space there was falling. Agricultural actions in Africa are more and more fragmenting wildland areas which might be vulnerable to burning. A cultivated farm subject and roads might help cease a fireplace’s unfold. But extra farms and growth in wildland areas additionally means extra folks will be uncovered to wildfires.”