wildfires
California wildfire smoke affects indigenous communities nearly two times more than expected
March 4, 2024“Analyses spanning 2006 to 2020 revealed that Native American and Alaska Native, multiracial, and non-Hispanic white populations had consistently disproportionate outdoor wildfire PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] exposure."
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How Maui’s wildfires became the country’s deadliest in more than a century
August 17, 2023The grisly scenes are easy to understand "in the age of global warming," Hawaii’s governor said.
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Washington state wildfires endanger animals, homes, crops, renewable energy farms
July 25, 2023"It's a firefighter’s worst nightmare because the humidity is dropping precipitously. The winds are picking up. And so the fire carries extremely fast.”
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Canada wildfire smoke prompts U.S. air quality alerts for 70 million residents in 32 states
July 20, 2023Some days, wildfire crews work as long as 16 hours battling the unrelenting blazes.
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The new abnormal: Climate change making wildfires and smoke worse
July 3, 2023“The climate changed so much that we lost control of it.”
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