Satellite data and artificial intelligence, researchers have mapped two crucial forest fire risk indicators—canopy base ...

By Lily Mayers and Paulo Nunes dos Santos  There has been a seismic shift in the goals of modern European fire fighting. The ...

Researchers developed the first high-resolution, pan-European maps of canopy fuels using satellite data and AI, addressing a ...

March was not just warmer than average, it was a lot warmer, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service has found.

Last month was also the hottest March ever recorded in Europe by a significant margin ... The EFFIS data is based on satellite readings and only maps fires that are 30 hectares or larger ...

And that raises the risk, for now, of wildfires this summer ... in particular saw the mercury soar. Image: Maps show how much hotter than average Europe was in March (R), and how much rainfall ...