Factors like your health status and how hard you exercise can help gauge the risk of wildfire smoke exposure.
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Wildfires can unleash hidden health threats, including promoting the spread of infections.
New international research reveals climate change increased the proportion of wildfire smoke-related human deaths tenfold between the 1960s and 2010s. Here’s what that means for Australia.
Thousands of chemical compounds in wildfire smoke are interacting with each other and sunlight as the smoke travels. For people downwind, it can become more toxic over time.
Smoke alarms are used extensively in formal buildings around the world to alert occupants to impending fires, but until recently they’ve not been used informal dwellings.
One vet suggested bushfire smoke had killed the smoky mouse – and asked, in a nod to the species’ name, if this was a case of “death by irony”.
Australians choked through a smoke-ridden summer during the bushfire crisis. But many of us are unaware of the silent damage indoor wood fire heaters are doing to our health.
In recent days, we’ve seen dramatic pictures of thick smoke from bushfires hanging over Sydney. Our first thoughts are with people living in the immediate vicinity of the fires, and the threat to their…
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Professor, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Washington
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Director, Plants and Environmental Quality Research Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Wildland Fire Science, University of Idaho
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Deputy Chief Environmental Scientist - Environmental Public Health, Monash University
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