[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather and climate change: population health and health system implications

KL Ebi, J Vanos, JW Baldwin, JE Bell… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an
expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change …

A global perspective on microplastics

RC Hale, ME Seeley, MJ La Guardia… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Society has become increasingly reliant on plastics since commercial production began in
about 1950. Their versatility, stability, light weight, and low production costs have fueled …

Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 for the Contiguous US

ML Childs, J Li, J Wen, S Heft-Neal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Smoke from wildfires is a growing health risk across the US. Understanding the spatial and
temporal patterns of such exposure and its population health impacts requires separating …

US fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s

V Iglesias, JK Balch, WR Travis - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Recent fires have fueled concerns that regional and global warming trends are leading to
more extreme burning. We found compelling evidence that average fire events in regions of …

[HTML][HTML] Global population exposure to landscape fire air pollution from 2000 to 2019

R Xu, T Ye, X Yue, Z Yang, W Yu, Y Zhang, ML Bell… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Wildfires are thought to be increasing in severity and frequency as a result of climate
change,,,–. Air pollution from landscape fires can negatively affect human health,–, but …

The imperative for climate action to protect health

A Haines, K Ebi - New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health The WHO predicts that 250,000 deaths
yearly from 2030 to 2050 will be attributable to climate change. Reductions in greenhouse …

Wildland fire smoke and human health

WE Cascio - Science of the total environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The natural cycle of landscape fire maintains the ecological health of the land, yet adverse
health effects associated with exposure to emissions from wildfire produce public health and …

[HTML][HTML] Health effects of wildfire smoke in children and public health tools: a narrative review

SM Holm, MD Miller, JR Balmes - Journal of exposure science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Wildfire smoke is an increasing environmental health threat to which children are particularly
vulnerable, for both physiologic and behavioral reasons. To address the need for improved …

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

T Schoennagel, JK Balch… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past
three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management

SM D'Evelyn, J Jung, E Alvarado… - Current environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United
States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a …