Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives
Air, Soil and Water Research, 2021 Changes in climate, land use, and land management impact the occurrence and severity of wildland fires in many parts of the world. This is particularly evident in Europe, where ongoing changes in land use have strongly modified fire patterns over the ...
Ana C Meira Castro +2 more
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Health risks and mitigation strategies from occupational exposure to wildland fire: a scoping review [PDF]
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2022 Objectives Due to accelerating wildland fire activity, there is mounting urgency to understand, prevent, and mitigate the occupational health impacts associated with wildland fire suppression. The objectives of this review of academic and grey literature
Erica Koopmans +4 more
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Pregnancy exposure to PM2.5 from wildland fire smoke and preterm birth in California [PDF]
Environment InternationalBackground: Wildfires in the Western United States are a growing and significant source of air pollution that is eroding decades of progress in air pollution reduction.
Sally Picciotto +10 more
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Mental Health and Traumatic Occupational Exposure in Wildland Fire Dispatchers [PDF]
FireWildland fire dispatchers play a key role in wildland fire management and response organization; however, to date, wildland fire studies have largely focused on the physical hazards and, to a lesser extent, mental health hazards of wildland firefighting ...
Robin Verble +4 more
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The contribution of wildland fire emissions to deposition in the U S: implications for tree growth and survival in the Northwest [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Ecosystems require access to key nutrients like nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) to sustain growth and healthy function. However, excessive deposition can also damage ecosystems through nutrient imbalances, leading to changes in productivity and shifts in ...
Shannon N Koplitz +6 more
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Wildland fire smoke and human health. [PDF]
Sci Total Environ, 2018 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 clinical challenges. Systematic reviews conclude that a positive association exists between exposure to wildfire smoke or wildfire particulate matter (PM2.5) and all ...
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Spatial and temporal expansion of global wildland fire activity in response to climate change. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Global warming is expected to alter wildfire potential and fire season severity, but the magnitude and location of change is still unclear. Here, we show that climate largely determines present fire-prone regions and their fire season.
Senande-Rivera M +2 more
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Respiratory Impacts of Wildland Fire Smoke: Future Challenges and Policy Opportunities. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. [PDF]
Ann Am Thorac Soc, 2021 Wildland fires are diminishing air quality on a seasonal and regional basis, raising concerns about respiratory health risks to the public and occupational groups.
Rice MB +18 more
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Multimodal Wildland Fire Smoke Detection [PDF]
CoRR, 2022 Research has shown that climate change creates warmer temperatures and drier conditions, leading to longer wildfire seasons and increased wildfire risks in the United States. These factors have in turn led to increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of wildfires in recent years.
Siddhant Baldota +11 more
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Associations between wildland fire smoke PM2.5 and maternal blood pressure [PDF]
Environmental HealthBackground Wildland fires are a significant source of pollution that can cause sudden changes in ground-level ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5), an exposure that has been associated with gestational blood pressure increases. However, estimating the
Patrick S. Reuther +8 more
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