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Wildfires have always been around, but thanks to climate change , they’re becoming even more of a threat: Carbon emissions from wildfires grew 60% between 2001 and 2023, and the area burned by wildfires nearly doubled between 1984 and 2015.
Smoke from wildfires can travel thousands of miles from the actual source, meaning huge areas can be impacted—leaving lots of folks dealing with the effects of breathing it in.
Now, researchers are beginning to get a clearer picture of just how much wildfires affect our health. Two new studies from lead author Min Zhang, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the…
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