Researchers are increasingly focused on the health risks posed by wildfire smoke as climate change exacerbates the severity of wildfires. Initial understandings of smoke's effects were limited, but active research now spans multiple disciplines. As global temperatures rise, studies show that smoke can adversely impact human health even at considerable distances from the source of a fire. Alongside medical research and atmospheric studies, new instruments are being developed to better understand wildfire smoke's composition and its effects on public health.
"For a long time, smoke was not considered very important. People thought of climate change as temperature and sea level rise, and that was it."
"A wave of recent papers has changed that. Chemists parse the composition of wildfire smoke. Engineers design and fly new instruments into the plume."
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