Global heating particularly increasing risk of death from smoke inhalation in Australia, South America, Europe and parts of Asia
Hundreds died from the effects of smoke inhalation caused by Australia’s 2019-2020 black summer bushfires and many more are likely to have long-term health issues, says Prof Hilary Bambrick.Hundreds died from the effects of smoke inhalation caused by Australia’s 2019-2020 black summer bushfires and many more are likely to have long-term health issues, says Prof Hilary Bambrick.
Both studies, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, teased apart the effect that adding greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere was having on wildfires, compared to other human actions such as land clearing.
In some regions, temperature increases were the main factor for increasing fire risk while in others, it was lower humidity.The authors said the health effects from wildfires could be underestimated because the “toxicity of particles originating from fire” were more severe than from other sources.at the Australian National University, said millions of people in Australia were exposed to dangerous and prolonged levels of pollution from smoke during the black summer fires in 2019 and 2020.
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