Deaths resulting from exposure to wildfire smoke could cost the U.S. economy more by 2050 than all other climate-related harms combined, a new study suggests. Wildfire smoke pollution is estimated to ...

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters. Source: Nature Note: Midcentury projection uses a moderate warming ...

If the planet continues to warm at the current rate, smoke from wildfires will kill as many as 70,000 Americans a year by 2050, according to new research from Stanford University. The research, ...

Researchers estimate that between 2011–2020, wildfire smoke exposure contributed to about 41,380 extra deaths per year across the U.S. Under a “business-as-usual” warming scenario, annual excess ...