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New research shows that wildfires are a major contributor to ozone pollution, and can significantly exceed the impacts of human-generated emissions.
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In recent months, concern about the health risks wildland firefighters face has been growing. Now a major conference exploring that issue has started in Colorado.
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The federal government has issued new guidelines to wildland firefighters for the voluntary use of protective masks. The move comes as knowledge of long-term health risks faced by such workers – including cancer – grows.
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Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land management records and fire emissions data, a team of researchers has put hard numbers to those impacts.
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More than 200 people are working from the air and on the ground to suppress the fire despite erratic winds.
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Federal forecasters say there is above-average potential for significant wildfires all the way through the end of September across a vast swath of the Western U.S.
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Most of the states in our region have at least one county that violates the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
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Much of southern Arizona and New Mexico are expected to see above average potential for wildfire in April.
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Nearby smoke plumes can drop generation substantially, but smoke that blows in from distant blazes appears to have only a "modest" effect.
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Researchers pored over roughly four dozen papers that assessed exposure to various carcinogens on the fireline. They identified 31 carcinogens – including asbestos, volatile organic compounds like benzene and crystalline silica.