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For more than 70 years, China has managed forest and grassland fires through total fire suppression (1). This policy has been mostly successful, reducing the annual burned area from nearly 3 million ha in the early 1950s to less than half a million ha in 2008 and decreasing the number of wildfires from 60,000 to less than 10,000 during the same period (2). However, fire suppression is likely to become less effective as the climate changes and the population leaves rural areas. To prepare for changing conditions, China should adopt a more balanced wildfire management strategy.

Nearly half a billion people globally have experienced wildfires within 1 km of their homes over the past two decades (1). In addition to damaging ecosystems (2), wildfires contaminate drinking water distribution systems, which poses substantial and escalating public health risks. Authorities in areas of recent wildfires, such as the 2025 Los Angeles fires (3), should ensure that drinking water is safe by monitoring and mitigating contamination in water distribution systems.

HomeScienceVol. 388, No. 6743Implementing equitable wildfire response plansBack To Vol. 388, No. 6743 Full accessLetter Share on Implementing equitable wildfire response plansJunxiang Xu [email protected], Divya Jayakumar Nair, and S. Travis WallerAuthors Info & AffiliationsScience10 Apr 2025Vol 388, Issue 6743pp. 158-159 PREVIOUS ARTICLEEditor’s notePreviousNEXT ARTICLEWildfires jeopardize drink…

On 7 December 2007, Science published the Report “Orchestration of the DNA-damage response by the RNF8 ubiquitin ligase” by N. K. Kolas et al. (1). On 6 December 2024, an Editorial Expression of Concern alerted readers that Fig. 3D included a duplicate image (2). The authors have now corrected the paper. As described in an Erratum (3), the authors have repeated the time-lapse microscopy and produced a revised Fig. 3D. They have updated the text and supplementary materials to document the recent work and provided the source data at Zenodo (4). The results were consistent with the paper’s conclusions. These changes have addressed concerns about the integrity of the paper. Therefore, Science has removed the Editorial Expression of Concern and posted this notification in its place to indicate the editors’ confidence in the Research Article’s data and conclusions.

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