Medical Xpress

Video: Wildfire smoke's effects on childhood asthma

Last summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed Vermont, darkening the sunset and significantly reducing air quality. But Anna Maassel, a Ph.D. candidate in the Rubenstein School of Environment ...
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Wildfire smoke's hidden ozone threat may be adding thousands of US deaths each year

A study that assesses the effects of wildfires over two decades shows that wildfire smoke significantly raises ground-level ozone and contributes to excess deaths from wildfire smoke in the ...
Circle of Blue

When Forests Burn, Lakes Suffer

Wildfires are blazing across Minnesota because of dry conditions. Elevated fire risk is becoming the new norm for the Upper Midwest. Hot fires have dire consequences for the water quality of ...
Chicago Tribune

Lahari Vuppaladhadiam: What wildfires do to our bodies when the smoke settles

In fall 2020, I woke up in an apocalypse. It was 8 a.m., but the world outside was dark and blanketed by an angry red sky. With all the lights on in the house, we watched specks of smoke and debris ...
Phys.org

Wildfire dark brown carbon has strong global warming effects, study finds

A new international study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that dark brown carbon from wildfires exerts a powerful warming effect on the global climate—potentially matching or even exceeding ...
Los Angeles Times

After the L.A. County fires, heart attacks and strange blood test results spiked

Emergency room visits for heart attacks at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center jumped 46% in the 90 days after the fire, and unusual blood test results more than doubled. The new findings are part of a ...