Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

B Clarke, F Otto, R Stuart-Smith… - Environmental Research …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

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 …

Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

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 …

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 …

Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires

FH Johnston, N Borchers-Arriagada, GG Morgan… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
In flammable landscapes around the globe, longer fire seasons with larger, more severely
burnt areas are causing social and economic impacts that are unsustainable. The Australian …

[HTML][HTML] Health impact analysis of PM2. 5 from wildfire smoke in Canada (2013–2015, 2017–2018)

CJ Matz, M Egyed, G **, J Racine, R Pavlovic… - Science of The Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Smoke from wildfires contains many air pollutants of concern and epidemiological studies
have identified associations between exposure to wildfire smoke PM 2.5 and mortality and …

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 …