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Smoke and Air Quality
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
The western North American forestland carbon sink: will our climate commitments go up in smoke?
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Pathways to achieving net-zero and net-negative greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission targets rely on land-based contributions to carbon (C) sequestration. However, projections of future contributions neglect to consider ecosystems, climate change, legacy impacts of continental-scale fire exclusion, forest accretion and densification, and a century or more of management.
Motivating parents to protect their children from wildfire smoke: the impact of air quality index infographics
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Background. Wildfire smoke events are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change. Children are especially vulnerable to health effects even at moderate smoke levels. However, it is unclear how parents respond to Air Quality Indices (AQIs) frequently used by agencies to communicate air pollution health risks. Methods.
Air Quality Impacts of the January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires: Insights from Public Data Sources
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Smoke from the Los Angeles (LA) wildfires that started on January 7, 2025 caused severe air quality impacts across the region. Government agencies released guidance on assessing personal risk, pointing to publicly available data platforms that present information from monitoring networks and smoke plume outlines.
Effect of Recent Prescribed Burning and Land Management on Wildfire Burn Severity and Smoke Emissions in the Western United States
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Wildfires in the western US increasingly threaten infrastructure, air quality, and public health. Prescribed (“Rx”) fire is often proposed to mitigate future wildfires, but treatments remain limited, and few studies quantify their effectiveness on recent major wildfires.
Climate Change Contributions to US Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 Mortality Between 2006-2020
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
RATIONALE Wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity due to climate change and now contribute to nearly half of the annual average of fine particulate matter in the US. While the effects of short-term wildfire-PM2.5 exposure on respiratory diseases are well-described, the impact of climate change on longer duration wildfire-PM2.5 mortality is unknown.
Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United States
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Climate change has increased forest fire extent in temperate and boreal North America.
Fine Particulate Matter From 2020 California Wildfires and Mental Health–Related Emergency Department Visits
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Importance: A growing body of research suggests that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5; particle size 2.5 microns or smaller) may be associated with mental health outcomes. However, the potential impact of wildfire-specific PM2.5 exposure on mental health remains underexplored.
Fire Intensity and spRead forecAst (FIRA): A Machine Learning Based Fire Spread Prediction Model for Air Quality Forecasting Application
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Fire activities introduce hazardous impacts on the environment and public health by emitting various chemical species into the atmosphere. Most operational air quality forecast (AQF) models estimate smoke emissions based on the latest available satellite fire products, which may not represent real-time fire behaviors without considering fire spread.
Enhancing fire emissions inventories for acute health effects studies: integrating high spatial and temporal resolution data
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Background: Daily fire progression information is crucial for public health studies that examine the relationship between population-level smoke exposures and subsequent health events. Issues with remote sensing used in fire emissions inventories (FEI) lead to the possibility of missed exposures that impact the results of acute health effects studies.
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