Increase in wildfires causing bad air days in US Northwest to get worse over the past 28 years

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 08:01 in Earth & Climate

A pair of researchers with the University of Washington has found that an increase in wildfire size and duration over the past 28 years has led to worsening bad air days in the U.S. Northwest. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Crystal McClure and Daniel Jaffe describe their study and what their results mean for people living in affected areas.

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