SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Watching the smoky air pour into Bay Area cities - the potential health risks from increasingly intense wildfires seem obvious. But now, a team from Stanford is revealing just ...
Wildfire smoke now accounts for up to half of all fine-particle pollution in the Western U.S., according to a new study that blames climate change for worsening air quality and health risks in both ...
The ongoing wildfires in the western US have spewed so much smoke that they’ve darkened the skylines of cities as far away as New York and Washington, DC. For those living near the fires, the health ...
Maine's air quality continues to suffer from lingering Canadian wildfire smoke. We asked health experts why exposure to smoky air is so harmful to our health. Wildfire smoke contains a cocktail of ...
The particle pollution created by wildfires continues to increase people’s risk of hospitalization for months after the smoke clears, researchers reported May 28 in the journal Epidemiology. “Even ...
RELEASED FROM JAIL. NONE OF THIS AIR POLLUTION COMES FROM MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES AS WE KNOW AND ONE OF THEM IS WILDFIRE SMOKE, BUT IT CAN BE CHALLENGING TO TRACK IN FORECASTS. YEAH METEOROLOGIST ...
Wildfire smoke is associated with an increased risk of heart failure Heart failure risk increased as particle pollution from wildfire smoke rose Women, seniors and low-income folks were most affected ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Wildfire smoke now accounts for up to half ...