Molecular insights and impacts of wildfire-induced soil chemical changes

AM Lopez, CCE Avila, JP VanderRoest… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wildfires act as important ecosystem controls and can benefit fire-adapted biomes by
promoting habitat heterogeneity, seed germination and disease control. However, the …

Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts

J Wen, S Heft-Neal, P Baylis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Rapidly changing wildfire regimes across the Western United States have driven more
frequent and severe wildfires, resulting in wide-ranging societal threats from wildfires and …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke PM2. 5 and mortality in the contiguous United States

Y Ma, E Zang, Y Liu, J Wei, Y Lu, HM Krumholz… - medRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite the growing evidence on the health effects of short-term exposure to wildfire smoke
fine particles (PM 2.5), the impacts of long-term wildfire smoke PM 2.5 exposure remain …

Spatial Heterogeneity of the Respiratory Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 in California

V Do, C Chen, T Benmarhnia, JA Casey - GeoHealth, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire smoke fine particles (PM2. 5) are a growing public health threat as wildfire events
become more common and intense under climate change, especially in the Western United …

Assessing the Link between Wildfires, Vulnerability, and Climate Change: Insights from the Regions of Greece

P Xepapadeas, K Douvis, I Kapsomenakis… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services which are important for achieving
sustainable development. Anthropogenic climate change has led to the increased frequency …

[HTML][HTML] Geospatial Science for the Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer in the Exposome Era

T VoPham, AJ White, RR Jones - Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2024 - AACR
Geospatial science is the science of location or place that harnesses geospatial tools, such
as geographic information systems (GIS), to understand the features of the environment …

Mortality Burden From Wildfire Smoke Under Climate Change

M Qiu, J Li, CF Gould, R Jing, M Kelp, M Childs… - 2024 - nber.org
Wildfire activity has increased in the US and is projected to accelerate under future climate
change. However, our understanding of the impacts of climate change on wildfire smoke …

The Evolution of Turbulence Producing Motions in the ABL Across a Natural Roughness Transition

JP Cooke, DJ Jerolmack, GI Park - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05163, 2024 - arxiv.org
Landforms such as sand dunes act as roughness elements to Atmospheric Boundary Layer
(ABL) flows, triggering the development of new scales of turbulent motions. These turbulent …

[HTML][HTML] Association of Short-Term Increases in Ambient Fine Particulate Matter With Hospitalization for Asthma or COPD During Wildfire Season and Other Time …

BD Horne, MM Johnson, DP Blagev, F Haddad… - CHEST Pulmonary, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Short-term increases in air pollution are associated with poor asthma and
COPD outcomes. Short-term elevations in fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) due to wildfire …

Evaluating estimation methods for wildfire smoke and their implications for assessing health effects

M Qiu, M Kelp, S Heft-Neal, X Jin, C Gould, D Tong… - 2024 - eartharxiv.org
Growing wildfire smoke represents a substantial threat to air quality and human health in the
US and across much of the globe. However, the impact of wildfire smoke on human health …