131 million in the US live in areas with unhealthy pollution levels, lung association finds
by Nearly 40% of people in the United States live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air …
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Extreme heat, wildfire smoke harms low-income and non-white communities the most, study finds
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The extreme heat and wildfire smoke are independently damaging to the human body, but combined their effects on the cardiovascular and …
Canada’s massive wildfire season offers a glimpse of new risks in a hotter, drier future
The blanket of wildfire smoke that spread across the United States and Canada in 2023 was a wake-up call, showing millions of people what climate …
California wildfires created toxic chromium, research finds
After several recent severe wildfires in Northern California, scientists tested samples of singed soil and were shocked by their results: It was loaded with a …