NCAR analysis shows widespread pollution from 2004 wildfires
Wildfires in Alaska and Canada in 2004 emitted about as much carbon monoxide as did human-related activities in the continental United States during the same time period, according to new research by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The fires also increased atmospheric concentrations of ground-level ozone across much of the Northern Hemisphere. The NCAR study, which ind...Southern California Wildfires Pose Health Risks to Children
USC researchers find nonasthmatics share similar symptoms as those with asthma Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2006– In October of 2003, multiple wildfires raged throughout Southern California. Now, researchers// at the University of Southern California (USC) report that residents without asthma in wildfire-endangered regions suffered as much as those with asthma. The findings appear in th...New Study Links Western Wildfires to Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures
Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study// led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. States like Washington, Oregon, California, Colora...