Continent-based systematic review of the short-term health impacts of wildfire emissions

B Barros, M Oliveira, S Morais - Journal of Toxicology and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This review systematically gathers and provides an analysis of pollutants levels emitted from
wildfire (WF) and their impact on short-term health effects of affected populations. The …

Wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy: a review of potential mechanisms of placental toxicity, impact on obstetric outcomes, and strategies to reduce exposure

E Basilio, R Chen, AC Fernandez, AM Padula… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change is accelerating the intensity and frequency of wildfires globally.
Understanding how wildfire smoke (WS) may lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes and …

Associations between wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in California

S Heft-Neal, A Driscoll, W Yang, G Shaw… - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
There is limited population-scale evidence on the burden of exposure to wildfire smoke
during pregnancy and its impacts on birth outcomes. In order to investigate this relationship …

Estimated mortality and morbidity attributable to smoke plumes in the United States: Not just a western US problem

K O'Dell, K Bilsback, B Ford, SE Martenies… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As anthropogenic emissions continue to decline and emissions from landscape (wild,
prescribed, and agricultural) fires increase across the coming century, the relative …

New seasonal pattern of pollution emerges from changing North American wildfires

RR Buchholz, M Park, HM Worden, W Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rising emissions from wildfires over recent decades in the Pacific Northwest are known to
counteract the reductions in human-produced aerosol pollution over North America. Since …

Mortality attributable to PM2.5 from wildland fires in California from 2008 to 2018

R Connolly, ME Marlier, DA Garcia-Gonzales… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
In California, wildfire risk and severity have grown substantially in the last several decades.
Research has characterized extensive adverse health impacts from exposure to wildfire …

Network of low-cost air quality sensors for monitoring indoor, outdoor, and personal PM2. 5 exposure in Seattle during the 2020 wildfire season

J He, CH Huang, N Yuan, E Austin, E Seto… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increased frequency of wildfires in the Western United States has raised public
awareness of the impact of wildfire smoke on air quality and human health. Exposure to …

Impact of wildfires on cardiovascular health

VA Williams, LR Perreault, CT Yazbeck… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Wildfire smoke (WFS) is a mixture of respirable particulate matter, environmental gases, and
other hazardous pollutants that originate from the unplanned burning of arid vegetation …

Catastrophic PM2. 5 emissions from Siberian forest fires: Impacting factors analysis

AA Romanov, AN Tamarovskaya, BA Gusev… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
With increased forest fires due to climate change, PM 2.5 emissions also intensified. Record
PM 2.5 emissions according to Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service in Russia …

Outside in: The relationship between indoor and outdoor particulate air quality during wildfire smoke events in western US cities

K O'Dell, B Ford, J Burkhardt… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous research on the health and air quality impacts of wildfire smoke has largely
focused on the impact of smoke on outdoor air quality; however, many people spend a …