Wildfires at a tipping point force a rethink of climate models

Anjana Ahuja argues that wildfires are entering tipping-point territory driven by climate change and land-use shifts, with fires burning faster, wider, and longer than models predict, including Europe’s heatwaves and rare pyrocumulonimbus events; a Royal Society paper calls for urgent research on how fires start, spread and cause damage, greater resilience, and measuring their atmospheric impacts, plus fuel-management and health considerations from smoke as fires threaten carbon sinks and risk climate-doom loops.