Health effects of wildfire smoke exposure

CF Gould, S Heft-Neal, M Johnson… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
We review current knowledge on the trends and drivers of global wildfire activity, advances
in the measurement of wildfire smoke exposure, and evidence on the health effects of this …

Environmental factors influencing COVID-19 incidence and severity

AK Weaver, JR Head, CF Gould… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors—including air pollution
and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment—and severe acute respiratory …

Smoke-weather interaction affects extreme wildfires in diverse coastal regions

X Huang, K Ding, J Liu, Z Wang, R Tang, L Xue… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Extreme wildfires threaten human lives, air quality, and ecosystems. Meteorology plays a
vital role in wildfire behaviors, and the links between wildfires and climate have been widely …

The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?

HD Safford, AK Paulson, ZL Steel… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …

Climate change and global health: a call to more research and more action

I Agache, V Sampath, J Aguilera, CA Akdis, M Akdis… - Allergy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change and increased pollution will
have a profound and mostly harmful effect on human health. This review brings together …

[HTML][HTML] First close insight into global daily gapless 1 km PM2.5 pollution, variability, and health impact

J Wei, Z Li, A Lyapustin, J Wang, O Dubovik… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Here we retrieve global daily 1 km gapless PM2. 5 concentrations via machine learning and
big data, revealing its spatiotemporal variability at an exceptionally detailed level …

Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke

M Burke, S Heft-Neal, J Li, A Driscoll, P Baylis… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect
health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but …

Climate change, women's health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership

LC Giudice, EF Llamas‐Clark… - … of Gynecology & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is one of the major global health threats to the world's population. It is
brought on by global warming due in large part to increasing levels of greenhouse gases …

The role of outdoor and indoor air quality in the spread of SARS-CoV-2: Overview and recommendations by the research group on COVID-19 and particulate matter …

P Piscitelli, A Miani, L Setti, G De Gennaro… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are important questions surrounding the potential contribution of outdoor and indoor
air quality in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and perpetuation of COVID-19 epidemic …

Long-term impacts of non-occupational wildfire exposure on human health: A systematic review

Y Gao, W Huang, P Yu, R Xu, Z Yang, D Gasevic… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The intensity and frequency of wildfires is increasing globally. The systematic review of the
current evidence on long-term impacts of non-occupational wildfire exposure on human …