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Wildfire smoke poses an existential threat to outdoor theaters in the Bay Area and beyond

Wildfire smoke poses an existential threat to outdoor theaters in the Bay Area and beyond
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The Shifting Burden of Wildfires in the United States | Homeland Security Newswire

Published 1 February 2021 Wildfire smoke will be one of the most widely felt health impacts of climate change throughout the country, but U.S. clean air regulations are not equipped to deal with it. Experts discuss the causes and impacts of wildfire activity and its rapid acceleration in the American west. Record-setting wildfires torched huge swaths of western states in 2020. They blotted out the sun, produced hazardous air pollution in cities far from the blazes and sent toxic smoke wafting clear across the country and beyond. Such far-reaching effects are no longer aberrations, Stanford scholars write in research published Jan. 12 in 

The Devastating Effect that Wildfires have on Air Quality

The Devastating Effect that Wildfires have on Air Quality Image Credit: SvetlanaSF / Shutterstock.com Driven by climate change, wildfires are on the rise. New studies highlight the burden of such events on communities and human health.  Wildfire activity is on the rise across the globe due to the continuing effects of global warming. The joint warmest year on record, 2020, was a year of wildfires thanks to dry conditions and droughts, driven by climate change, with over 45 million acres of land lost in Australia alone.  These configurations represent an increasingly devastating and often deadly burden. A new study conducted by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California and published in the journal

Wildfires having devastating effect on air quality in western US, study finds

Increasingly ferocious wildfires in the western US are taking a devastating toll on the region’s air quality, with wildfire smoke now accounting for half of all air pollution during the worst wildfire years, according to a new study. Scientists from Stanford University and UC San Diego have found that toxic plumes of smoke, which can blanket western states for weeks when wildfires are raging, are reversing decades of gains in cutting air.

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