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RNZ News
28-05-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Our Changing World: Inside a fire lab
science environment 28 May 2025 New Zealand experiences more than 4,500 wildfires every year – and the risk of big, destructive wildfires is increasing with climate change. Ellen Rykers visits the fire lab at the University of Canterbury, a purpose-built facility for setting things on fire and studying how they burn. Researchers can burn couches or create fire tornadoes. But today, Ellen is with PhD researcher and firefighter Kate Melnick, who is researching gorse, a prickly shrub that is both common and flammable. We join Kate as she sets up a large gorse bush in the lab, ready to burn.
RNZ News
28-05-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Our Changing World – Wildfire science heats up
Smoke explosions. Fire tornadoes. Burning couches. It all happens in the fire lab: a purpose-built facility where researchers can set safely stuff on fire and study how it burns, for science. New Zealand experiences 4,500 wildfires every year, with the risk ramping up due to climate change. We visit the fire lab to learnt how research can help us prepare for future wildfires, and watch a large gorse bush go up in flames. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
