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To understand what’s in the smoke you might be breathing, you have to look at where it’s been.
A home might appear fine, but toxic contamination isn’t always evident by sight or smell. An engineer share safety tips for the recovery.
Wildfire smoke can even affect the weather downwind.
Wildfire smoke does not carry a passport. Canada cannot thin, log, rake or prescribe-burn its way out of a planetary crisis.
When you breathe in wildfire smoke, harmful particles can travel deep into your body.
As climate-related hazards become more frequent and severe, protecting our health will require moving beyond warnings toward prevention.
By 2100, 100 million Americans could breathe unhealthy air in the summer, seven times more than in 2000.
Ads from the 19th and 20th centuries shows how the industry has long tried to promote coal as clean and even healthy, despite evidence to the contrary.
The blaze at the Geelong oil refinery in Victoria has reportedly been extinguished. But residents in the area may be worried about the health effects of lingering smoke.
Should I use my aircon? Do I need an air purifier? Can indoor plants help? And which masks actually work for smoke?
When cities burn, plastics, electronics, cleaning chemicals and much more create a toxic brew. Studies launched during the LA fires a year ago show exposure is often strongest inside homes.
A new AI-powered simulation model allows researchers and architects to design well-ventilated indoor spaces that keep harmful smoke away.
Building your own DIY air cleaner is an easy and cost-effective way to remove smoke and harmful particles from the air.
As wildfire smoke becomes a frequent summer hazard across large parts of the US, knowing the risk at the neighborhood scale matters for human health.
Factors like your health status and how hard you exercise can help gauge the risk of wildfire smoke exposure.
Wildfire smoke doesn’t just darken the skies — it harms the brain, especially in those most vulnerable.
In 2013, the Vatican released their recipes for conclave smoke.
Smoke will tell us when a new pope has been elected by the papal conclave. Here’s what to look out for.
Human bodies aren’t prepared for the toxic chemicals in smoke, and the effects can be harmful in the short term and long term.
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Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
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Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
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University of Iowa Distinguished Chair, Professor of Environmental Health, University of Iowa
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Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
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Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University
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Chancellor's Professor in Engineering, Climate Change and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University