For over a century, the United States has poured billions of dollars into fire suppression tactics to keep people, homes and critical environments safe, but suppression can deprive landscapes of necessary burns and increase potential fuel for large fires in the future. New research to be presented at AGU’s 2025 Annual Meeting in New Orleans has found nearly 38 million hectares of land in the western United States is historically behind on its burning, leaving those lands in a “fire deficit.”

New research shows that the green transition in agriculture is more complex than first assumed. The research indicates that green political decisions need to take the entire system into account.

The Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation intends to provide a total of 10.4 million euros in funding to the Cluster of Excellence Future Forests at the University of Freiburg.

Starting in 2026, Future Forests will investigate how forests and their use can be adapted to global change.

The projects to be funded include a tenure track endowed professorship for silviculture and climate change adaptation, an international research laboratory on forest adaptation, and an incubator fund.