Stephen J Pyne
Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University
Stephen J Pyne is a writer, an urban farmer, and an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His latest books include The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World (2021) and The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (2021). He lives in Queen Creek, Arizona, US.
Written by Stephen J Pyne
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Pyrocene Park
Fire is a planetary feature, not a biotic bug. What can we learn from Yosemite’s experiment to restore natural fire?
Stephen J Pyne
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Deep time
The planet is burning
Wild, feral and fossil-fuelled, fire lights up the globe. Is it time to declare that humans have created a Pyrocene?
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Earth science and climate
The fire age
We can melt ice sheets and cook landscapes. When humans made fire, they made themselves and their planet too
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Burning like a mountain
Fire has come roaring back into America’s West after a century of attempted extirpation. Can our land take the wild heat?
Stephen J Pyne
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Architecture
The ice inferno
Without night or day, and the sun spinning slowly in a cold sky. Could you stand the mental hypothermia?
Stephen J Pyne