1. Andrew C. Scott is in the Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.
   e-mail: a.scott@es.rhul.ac.uk

Abstract

Wildfires have been a natural part of the Earth system for millions of years. A new charcoal database for the past two millennia shows that human activity increased biomass burning after AD 1750 and suppressed it after AD 1870.

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