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Researchers sound alarm after discovering concerning side effect of wildfires: 'Could negatively affect ... survival'

A study has found that wildfires are reducing migratory bird activity at stopover sites. Led by Wieland Heim, a researcher of the Migration Ecology group at the University of Oldenburg, a team ...
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The Science and Effects of Wildfire

Hundreds of ongoing fires in Canada have forced thousands to evacuate their homes and sent smoke to cities across the eastern United States. In 2020, the skies turned orange over the Bay Area, the ...
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Wildfire smoke is obvious, but its long-term health impacts are not

The 2025 Canadian wildfire season is on track to be the country's second worst on record, burning more than 16.5 million acres and causing wildfire smoke to travel to the Midwest and Northeast United ...
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Where There’s Wildfire Smoke, There’s Poor Mental Health

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.
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'There are more opportunities for fires to get started': UNC doctor on health effects of wildfires and what you can do

With smoke from Canadian wildfires coming to North Carolina for the second time in June, it has people concerned on the overall effect it will have on there health. WRAL News spoke with a doctor at ...
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Wildfires don't just hurt humans. Here's how they affect your pets

Wildfires are blazing around the world — from Spain to Canada, Texas and, most recently, Hawaii, where flames killed more than 100 people in Maui. While it's clear that these disasters displace tons ...
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After the flames: Experts evaluate effects of the 2025 LA wildfires one year later

This post was updated Feb. 18 at 10:35 a.m. Experts have evaluated the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires to be among the top 10 most expensive natural disasters in United States history. Reports from ...
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The long-term health impacts from the LA wildfires are just becoming clear

Last January, fires were raging across Los Angeles, smothering some 20 million people across the region in toxic smoke and ash. LA residents worried that the air was toxic, the soil contaminated, and ...
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‘It gets into their blood.’ Toxic effects of LA wildfires one year later.

New research into the deadly blazes reveal changes to blood chemistry. But it could take decades to find the full effects. After wildfires ravaged Los Angeles a year ago, the city’s Cedars-Sinai ...

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from ...
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Officials issue warnings as Everglades wildfire spreads: 'It looked like fog, but you could smell it'

Officials in Florida have sounded the alarm after two wildfires in the Everglades combined to form one massive blaze that has now burned over 19,000 acres, NBC Miami reported. While the fires raged ...