Each issue of Wildfire magazine begins with the editor’s “Briefing” column — an introduction to what frames the issue’s contents and an invitation to engage in the key articles and commentary. …

Yesterday over breakfast at the coffee shop I logged in to Chommy (at https://personaldata.io/chommy-information/) and asked their service to help me gather all the intel about my online social-media bio (my psycho-data?) that has been collected and most likely sold by Cambridge Analytics. …

At the end of the dry season the Shire River is far below its banks, and this is the river that hydro-powers much of the electricity for the country. More than the loss of power, this drought has led to a failing or diminished maize crop, with prices doubling for…

It’s good to return to the warm heart of Africa with three colleagues, here to teach wildfire management to Malawians in the south (in Liwonde, for week one) and center-north (based out of Luwawa for weeks two and three). Tonight, at Heuglin’s Lodge in Lilongwe, we continued our planning over…

For much of my life I have made my home in the country, in park-lands as a ranger and firefighter where I track the flitting of birds, the flaming of forests. Yet in my travels — to reach the faraway and un-crowded places that are the gravitational pull of my…

In the southern hemisphere it may be spring, in the north fall. …