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As Canadian wildfire smoke continues to impact swaths of the United States, resulting in poor air quality and negative health outcomes for millions of Americans, more people than ever are feeling the effects of longer fire seasons and a changing climate.

As Canadian wildfire smoke continues to impact large swaths of the United States, resulting in poor air quality and negative health outcomes for millions of Americans, more people than ever are feeling the effects of longer fire seasons and a changing climate.

Research from Rajan Chakrabarty and Rohan Mishra at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis reveals an unexpected impact of wildfires on climate change.

Researchers have discovered that wildfires may have even bigger climate impacts than previously thought.

A huge aerial campaign seeks to understand the effects of biomass smoke on human health

In new research reported in SPIE’s Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, researchers illustrate their findings in the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field campaigns in 2019.

A new study reveals how wildfire smoke produces toxic ozone and how urban air pollution could exacerbate the problem.

Posted on April 19, 2021 | Views: 160 cwebb2021-04-19T01:21:18-07:00 by Alan Buis: The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints of climate change… From Australia and South America’s Amazon and Pantanal regions, to Siberia and the U.S. West, wildfires set new records and made news year-round. It was an especially bad year for wildfires on the U.S. West Coast. Five of Californi...

The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West By Alan Buis, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory Smoke from wildfires shrouded the San Francisco Bay Area and blocked sunlight on September 9, 2020. Credit: Aaron Maizlish/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints of climate change. From Australia and South America’s Amazon and Pantanal regions, to Siberia an...