public healthsmoke inhalation injuryWildfire smoke (WFS) is a mixture of respirable particulate matter, environmental gases, and other hazardous pollutants that originate from the unplanned burning of arid vegetation during wildfires. The increasing size and frequency of recent wildfires has escalated ...
1 Map of NOAA NCEI billion-dollar weather and climate disasters included in the analysis (2011–2016) which includes wildfires and droughts that were considered in our selection of controls. The color of the county designates the number of long-term drought or wildfires events and the number of...
Impact of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) exposure during wildfires on cardiovascular health outcomes J Am Heart Assoc, 4 (2015), p. e001653 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 22 F.H. Johnston, I.C. Hanigan, S.B. Henderson, et al. Extreme air pollution events from bushfires and dus...
Air pollution is caused by a variety of factors, including industrial emissions, transportation, and natural sources such as wildfires and dust storms. The impact of air pollution on public health is a major concern and has been the subject of much research and debate. Air pollution has been ...
June 28 (Xinhua) -- The first heatwave of the year, which is setting new temperature records across Europe, has posed a risk to people's health by triggering exhaustion or heat stroke, while also affecting agriculture and the environment, especially through wildfires, UN agencies warned on ...
More intense wildfiresspew dangerous smokeinto the air, as documented in the western U.S. this year. And hotter days make moresmog, which the American Lung Association describes as acting "like a sunburn on your lungs which may trigger an asthma attack." ...
Chen, XiaohongTian, XiJournal of Cleaner ProductionHaikerwal A, Akram M, Del Monaco A, et al. Impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure during wildfires on cardiovascular health out- comes. J Am Heart Assoc. 2015; 4: e001653....
(USEPA) suggest limiting physical activity during periods of high air pollution3,4; however, little is known about the impact of lower air pollution levels on athletes’ performance or health2. These concerns are not limited to wildfires, as there are many other environmental factors, such as ...
Air pollution is a global health challenge and a leading cause of early death, contributing to lung cancer development even among non-smokers [25]. Wildfires, which generate high concentrations of toxic particulate matter from burning biomass and man-made materials, affect both firefighters and the...
Table 1. Examples of wildfires with large social, economic and environmental impacts from 2010 - 2018. NameRegionImpact 2018 Camp fire USA 85 fatalities and nearly 19,000 structures destroyed [9] 2018 Attica fires Greece 102 fatalities and approximately 3,000 houses burned [10] 2017 Thomas fire...