WILDFIRE SMOKE IN THE NEWS
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Spring 2024 - A Missoula Roundtable with Wildfire Smoke Ready partners--Climate Smart Missoula, Missoula Public Health, the E.P.A., MT DPHHS, and University of Montana researchers. Check out:
Spring 2024 - A Missoula Roundtable with Wildfire Smoke Ready partners--Climate Smart Missoula, Missoula Public Health, the E.P.A., MT DPHHS, and University of Montana researchers. Check out:
WHAT WE'RE READING
We'd love to hear what you're reading, listening to, and watching!
Email wildfiresmoke@climatesmartmissoula.org to submit wildfire smoke news to be shared on this page.
We'd love to hear what you're reading, listening to, and watching!
Email wildfiresmoke@climatesmartmissoula.org to submit wildfire smoke news to be shared on this page.
FEATURED
- An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
- The Hazy Days of Summer | The New Yorker
- We Can See Clearly Now - by Bill McKibben (substack.com)
- What to know about smoke, heat and health I Montana Free Press
- How wildfire smoke can harm human health, even when the fire is hundreds of miles away – a toxicologist explains
PHYSICAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF WILDFIRE SMOKE
- New research finds building evidence for the long-term health effects of wildfire smoke
- Wildfire Smoke Can Wipe Years Off Your Lifespan: Study
- UW research links wildfire smoke to increased risk of emergency room visits for people of all ages
- Wildfire smoke 'like a giant cigarette' to lungs | Newsroom
- Wildfire smoke linked to increased risk of dementia, study says
- What Are the Health Risks of Wildfire Smoke Exposure? - The New York Times
- Opinion | Wildfire Smoke Is Damaging Our Children’s Lungs - The New York Times
PUBLIC HEALTH + EQUITY
- As wildfires grow, poor, elderly disproportionately affected - Stateline
- Wildfire Smoke Pollution a Growing Global Threat
- Wildfire smoke is the next public health crisis | The Hill
- Poor air quality from wildfires increases health risks to vulnerable people | BC Gov News
- The Canada wildfires are exposing the harmful effects — and health inequities — of air pollution
- Extreme heat and wildfire smoke can collide in deadly ways
MENTAL HEALTH + WILDFIRE SMOKE
POLICY + PLANNING
- How wildfire smoke is erasing years of progress toward cleaning up America's air
- States are working to protect people from dangerous wildfire smoke — are ‘clean air centers’ the future?
- Montana receives federal funding to expand air quality monitoring stations
- Wildfire smoke spotlights need for better indoor air quality, experts say - National | Globalnews.ca
Photo: Mason Dow
BUSINESS + ECONOMICS + TECH
- Wildfires are now costing the US up to $900 billion annually
- The threat of wildfires is rising. So are new artificial intelligence solutions to fight them
- The new business of wildfire preparedness could grow to be massive : NPR
- Wildfire smoke impacts more than our health — it also costs workers over $100B a year. Here's why. - CBS News
CLIMATE CHANGE
- North America’s summer of wildfire smoke: 2023 was only the beginning - What's Up New
- Viewpoint: Climate Change, wildfire and the air we breathe
- Climate change makes fires, smoke worse in ‘new abnormal’ - The Columbian
- Can the Wildfire Smoke Spark Climate Action? Environmental History Offers a Mixed Lesson - The Messenger
- Climate change is increasing the fire risk on the mostly treeless Great Plains : NPR
WILDFIRE SMOKE PREPAREDNESS
