@DrTELS

Assoc Prof @LSEGeography env change & sustainability🌏 wildfire emissions & models @UKFDRS🔥 tropical peat @Inter_PEAT🌴 innovative climate edu👨‍🎓 #firstgen

 London, UK
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Joined April 2011
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Today I gave a webinar for @sentinel_hub tying together some research I did on Arctic fires in 2020 with research by others published since the unprecedented wildfires of 2019 & 2020. Returning to this analysis reminded me of just how dangerous things are getting... [1/7]
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Here's the latest satellite imagery for the wildfire in Suffolk on #DunwichHeath. NASA hotspots first detected yesterday around 19:30, with further hotspots through this morning. The smoke plume clearly visible on this mid-morning overpass. [1/2]
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Source of imagery @NASAEarth: worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov…

Worldview: Explore Your Dynamic Planet

The NASA Worldview app provides a satellite's perspective of the planet as it looks today and as it has in the past through daily satellite images. Worldview is part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and...

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Sharing this blog post I wrote back in June 2023, given that it's happening all over again! "The effects of Canada's burning wildfires on New York show the shape of things to come for climate change" blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…

The effects of Canada’s burning wildfires on New York show the shape of things to come for climate...

Thomas Smith argues that fossil-fuel induced climate change and irresponsible land management practices are driving more extreme, larger and more destructive fires, and that we should expect a...

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InterPEAT@Inter_PEATMar 4
Exciting New paper out considering shifts in tropical #peat microbial communities and functional groups post- fires and implications to nutrient availability. Delighted to see this paper untangle some of the functional processes. @DrTELS @LJMU_BES sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣@rahmstorfApr 18
Ein "wissenschaftliches Alarmsignal": die neue Studie der französischen Kollegen zur Atlantikströmung #AMOC. 🌊 Hört es jemand? 😨 fr.de/wissen/atlantikstroemu…

„Näher am Kipppunkt“: Atlantikströmung AMOC schwächt sich stärker ab als gedacht – mit verheerenden...

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LSE Geography & Environment@LSEGeography8 Dec 2025
We’re hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Economic Geography and Urban Planning to join our world-class department 🌍. 🔴 zurl.co/uC5RX
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 retweeted
The Times Of India
@timesofindia7 Dec 2025
#TimesEvoke | #Smog to #Haze - 'If we normalise #airpollution, we just adapt to this disaster, instead of fixing it.' Join Professor Thomas Smith @DrTELS @LSEGeography discuss the new 'seasons' of the #Anthropocene with @srijanapiya17 in #TimesEvoke. ‘Calling air pollution ‘seasonal’ normalises this — we just adapt instead of fixing it’ Read here 🔗toi.in/cBbrja #seasons #climatechange #sustainability #health #fossilfuels #science #nature #Anthropocene
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Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025. 2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record. Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations @CopernicusEMS 🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
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Britain and Ireland drying out in this #heatwave The not so "green and pleasant land" #heatwaveuk 🌡️🔥 Imagery @NASAEarth worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov…
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Adam Vaughan@adamvaughan_uk11 Jul 2025
The UK is experiencing an extraordinary year for wildfires. 🔥 more call-outs for firefighters in the first six months than any year to date 🔥 larger area burnt by wildfires than any EU country bar Romania 🔥 "It’s a warning sign," says @DrTELS thetimes.com/uk/environment/…

Wildfires in the UK: record number of blazes in bone-dry Britain

Firefighters called out to twice as many incidents as in previous years as blazes cover a wider area than those seen in France, Spain and Greece

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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 retweeted
LSE Geography & Environment@LSEGeography1 Jul 2025
🔥 "What we're beginning to see is a wildfire season in the UK, particularly during March, April and May" - @DrTELS appears on BBC's Countryfile to discuss the impact of wildfires on our countryside. Watch Tom's segment from 22:30: zurl.co/ZxBJq @LSEnews

Countryfile - Spurn Point - Signed

Sean Fletcher and Anita Rani witness the return of the native oyster after an absence of 85 years to Spurn Point, a narrow three-mile ribbon of land at the mouth of the Humber Estuary.

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Ross Ewing@RossEwing976 Jul 2025
Pleased to contribute to @BBCWeekendGMS alongside @DrTELS with analysis of the recent #wildfires in the Highlands. While the cause of the fire is under investigation, a comprehensive government-led debrief needs to take place to ensure lessons are learned. @ScotLandEstates
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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 retweeted
SatWorld@or_bit_eye28 May 2025
🔴⚠️🔥🇨🇦Dry #weather is driving #wildfires out of control in #Saskatchewan with #Campfire and #shoeFire summing 216000Ha and a smoke plume of 1300km into the Hudson Bay. Also #Manitoba and #Alberta have strong #fires.⬇️last 24hrs of #GOES19 via @zoom_earth #climateemergency
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Here's the UK's cumulative burnt area so far for this year, according to @CopernicusEMS, beating the previous record of 2019. It may be early in the year, but we are towards the end of the 'fire season'. [1/2]
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And here's a map of the burnt area locations, most picked up over the past 30 days. [2/2]
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Sources: Plot: forest-fire.emergency.copern… Map: effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/…
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Andrew Freedman@afreedma3 Mar 2025
NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-no…

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers

NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏@DrTELS3 Aug 2023
A short thread on why the @WSJOpinion & @BjornLomborg are so wrong to use global burnt area datasets to build a strawman argument. 1) Global burnt area according to 20+ year satellite records is going down, we know that. [🧵🔥1/11]...
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#HappyNewYear everyone! But what do we mean by a year? It's not about one spin around the sun. It's not about stars being in the same position. It's about the relative position of the sun to the Earth's surface. Why? To regulate our seasons with our calendar. Leap years help!
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So what are we celebrating? Well... nothing physical as all of these cycles are different and would require us to celebrate at around 6 AM. Instead we celebrate the passing of universal coordinated time (UTC). Happy New Year!
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