Climate researcher at the University of Murcia. Also: ex-meteorologist, occasional climber.
Marco Turco
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🔥 Abstracts open for PLINIUS19, Murcia, 6–9 Oct 2026!
With @tmgiannaros.bsky.social & Mario Miguel Valero Pérez, I’m convening PL8: Current and emerging challenges of wildfires.
Submit your wildfire/fire risk abstracts:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/Plinius19/se...
Record-Breaking 2025 European Wildfires Concentrated in Northwest Iberia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
~541000ha burnt under extreme monthly FWI
Shrublands were +vely selected by fire & to a lesser extent pines. Oaks & crops were -vely selected
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🌳 wildfire
An incredible effort, only made possibly by an incredible global network of fire scientists!
Some folk on Bluesky: @pyrogeog.bsky.social @marco-turco.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social
🔥 New paper out in Science Advances
We detect a clear externally forced signal in the global increase of extreme fire weather days since 1980.
Using reanalyses and CMIP6 simulations, the fingerprint of change emerges above natural variability.
📄 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Extreme fire weather days are increasing worldwide.
Since 1979, days with FWI > p95 have risen globally, closely tracking global warming.
More heat → more fire-conducive conditions.
Abstract submission is now open for the 19th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks (6–9 Oct 2026, Murcia, Spain).
Deadline: 17 May.
meetings.copernicus.org/plinius19/
Human exposure to wildfires in Catalonia has increased markedly over the past 30 years—driven not by more burned area, but by urban expansion into fire-prone landscapes.
Figure below shows the trend clearly.
DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Something I'm especially happy about: this work is the result of a great collaboration.
Huge thanks to all co-authors:
Alberto Moreno, Ginés Garnés-Morales, Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez, @fdg10371.bsky.social, Joaquín Bedia, Sixto Herrera, Antonello Provenzale, and @climate-guy.bsky.social
🔥 New paper in npj Natural Hazards.
Analysing 11,403 wildfires across Mediterranean Europe (2008–2022), we show that megafires emerge when drought aligns with extreme fire weather, especially warm nights and strong winds near ignition.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Wildfires #ClimateChange
This work was supported by:
@um.es (University of Murcia)
@ecmwf.int
@univcantabria.bsky.social
@uahes.bsky.social
CNR
CIMA Research Foundation
Projects: ONFIRE & CHASE.
