Raging Fires (IMAGE)

University of Iowa

Raging Fires

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Researchers at the University of Iowa have found wildfires originating in the western United States and Canada have erased air quality gains over the past two decades and caused an increase of premature deaths in fire-prone areas and downwind regions. This map shows the areas with the highest concentrations (in red) of black carbon, a fine-particle air pollutant that has been linked with human respiratory and heart disease.

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Jun Wang lab, University of Iowa

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