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Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs of ...
The 2023 wildfires released nearly one gigatonne — or one billion tonnes — of carbon dioxide from Canada’s forests, an amount ...
Precisely how exposure to particulate pollution from wildfire smoke increases risk for heart failure is not fully understood ...
“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle.
Smoke-exposed individuals "showed an increase in memory CD8+ T cells (a type of immune cell critical to long-term immunity against pathogens) and elevated activation and chemokine receptor biomarkers ...
A 20-year-old man’s life appeared to have begun to unravel in the months before authorities say he fatally shot two firefighters and severely wounded a third as they responded to a wildfire near ...
How a new monitoring system improves fire detections and captures the air pollution effects of planned peatland burns.
The most effective filters have what’s called high-efficiency particulate air certification. Better known as HEPA filters, ...
P lenty of research shows that respiratory distress and heart attacks spike in the event of smoke exposure; acute impacts of ...
Wildfire smoke isn’t just a problem for people. When the air fills with soot and tiny particles, pets are breathing it in, ...
The past several years have been marked by an increase in the frequency and severity of wildfires in the western United ...