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Pollution from more frequent floods and wildfires – exacerbated by the warming climate – is threatening human health and poses particular risks to the brain.
To stay healthy, it’s important to understand how wildfire smoke can harm your body and how to protect yourself.
Smoke has long cast shadows across the skies in the northern hemisphere. Our aversion to smoke has influenced the way we’re willing to deal with the rising risk of wildfires.
As wildfires continue to edge closer to towns and agricultural areas, grape producers and wine-makers in the Okanagan must once again deal with this increasingly frequent threat of smoke taint.
New research found that smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, carried high concentrations of lead. An environmental toxicologist explains what else you’re breathing and how to stay safe.
Wildfire smoke is both inevitable and largely unpredictable. We need to change our activities and behaviours to limit exposure to wildfire smoke and protect health.
An increasing number of communities are discovering dangerous contamination in their water systems weeks or months after fires.
Thousands of chemical compounds in wildfire smoke are interacting with each other and sunlight as the smoke travels. For people downwind, it can become more toxic over time.
Beyond recreational consumption, young Nigerians are using cannabis to aid their schooling and work.
A fire scientist offers a six-point strategy for preventing wildfires and living safely in flammable landscapes.
Smoke from the Black Summer fires likely caused more than 400 deaths. A national set of air quality categories is long overdue.
To understand the risks of wildfire smoke, it helps to understand the chemicals people are breathing.
Last week, much of the Midwest and eastern US experienced hazy skies and red sunsets. The cause was smoke transported from the Western US by the jet stream and spread as far as Boston and even Europe.
Wildfire smoke makes it harder for firefighters’ bodies to fight off viruses. Social distancing is difficult in that environment, but fire crews are coming up with solutions.
Wildfires blanketing several Western cities are creating hazardous health conditions. Don’t count on cloth masks to protect your lungs.
Australians choked through a smoke-ridden summer during the bushfire crisis. But many of us are unaware of the silent damage indoor wood fire heaters are doing to our health.
According to a new study, about four in 10 air pollution deaths in the US are due to emissions crossing state lines.
Bushfire smoke accumulating over Australian cities contains a complex chemical mix which does all sorts of things to the human body.
This is not the first time Australia’s major cities have been shrouded in bushfire smoke. But this time, the culprits must held to account.
Top contributors
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Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor in Engineering, Climate Change and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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Professor, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Leader in Respiratory cellular and molecular biology at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Post Retirement Fellow, CSIRO
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Air and Noise Pollution, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Wildland Fire, University of Alberta
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Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty; Director, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (WHO CC for Air Quality and Health); Director - Australia, Australia – China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management (ACC-AQSM), Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Plants and Environmental Quality Research Group, University of Technology Sydney
