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We published recently a paper in Fire Safety Journal titled " Forecasting Fire Growth using an Inverse Zone Modelling Approach "...

The recent article of Banyan in The Economist, Where there's smoke , talks about the endemic haze that invades large parts of South East...

The very first research paper on the 2009 Daimiel peat fires has just been published. It is still pending volume and page numbers, but the m...

Alberto Martínez Arias me ha entrevistado en el programa ' Puntos de Vista ' de Radio Exterior RNE (ver dia 2 de septiembre aqui ...

Did you know about the first steps of Dilbert the engineer ? See the short video bellow. It is a classic video comic, but full of truth and ...

I did this comparison combining photos that I took at Las Tablas de Daimiel, Spain, in Nov 2009 during the peat fires and in Aug 2010 af...

"Daimiel era un desierto gris" elpais.com, por RAFAEL MÉNDEZ 24/08/2010 ( a translation to funny English is here ). ENTREVIS...

Given the attention paid during the last month to peat fires because of the dramatic events taking place in Russia this summer [*], some mi...

We are delighted to inform you that Volume 1 of ' Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective ' - our four volume book series - will...

As published this month in Nature Geoscience , forest wildfires that took place in Greenland millions of years ago are helping scientists to...

He escrito para el Anuario El país un articulo corto sobre el incendio soterrado de las Tablas de Daimiel. Incluyo el texto abajo. La vers...

As a young academic, and hence self-named newcomer to science, I was moved from the chair by some comments by The Institute of Physics in i...

This short film of the animated character Bean Maxwell caricatures a situation familiar to many of us. Enjoy.  - On the Level: All Bean...

Prof  Amy Smith from MIT gave in 2006 a TED talk on how to develop clean-burning solid fuels from local resources for indoor cooking. She s...

Prof Mike Hulme from University of East Anglia said it better: " Climate scientists get kudos from working on an issue in the public ey...

My comments on Daimiel made it to the New York Times (via AP), here goes my 15 min of fame: Spain Begins to Flood Park With Peat Fire

The good news that the National Park of Las Tablas de Daimiel begins to be flooded again was confirmed yesterday by EFE . It is hoped that t...

I have posted in the Edinburgh Fire Research Blog a longer comment with new photos or my visit to Las Tablas de Daimiel fire. See here: ...

One of the currently most popular research topics is Carbon Capture and Storage (technology to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmo...

Some of my comments on the peat fire in Daimiel have started to appear in media publishing in the English language: ( P resence in Spani...

Apariciones mías en medios españoles a cuenta del incendio soterrado de Las Tablas de Daimiel: ( for English-speaking media see here ) 10/1...

Foto tomada el día 25 de Noviembre de 2009 en la zona del preparque cerca del molino del Molimocho. El diario La Tribuna de Ciudad Real (LTC...

(Drawing by Eneko/ 20minutos.es ) [from Spanish activists issue manifesto on the rights of Internet users and Manifiesto “En defensa de lo...

Photo taken on November 25, 2009 in the area adjacent to the National Park, near Molimocho. The peat, very dry (water content bellow 20% dr...

The Spanish Newspaper El Pais publishes a sort interview with me about the ongoing peat fire in Las Tablas de Daimiel . "El fuego tiene...

Seven personal views on some myths about academics (I am an academic indeed!): I) I do not have 3 month of holidays . Indeed, last year ...