This month, the wildfire seasons that have choked western cities for the past five years arrived on the eastern seaboard, where cities, including New York and Philadelphia, were engulfed by smoke from Canadian wildfires. It’s time to adapt our lives to the consequences of climate change, making changes to protect our health indoors and outdoors. Wildfire seasons have become longer, […]
Smoke season has become an unfortunate, dreary part of every summer. Back in 2018, wildfires across Canada and the western United States plunged parts of the Pacific Northwest into a “smokestorm.” 2023 has seen an earlier fire season in Canada, and choking smoke has descended on New York and other urban centers on the Eastern Seaboard. It’s a bad time […]
James Crooks, Ph.D., an environmental epidemiologist with National Jewish Health’s Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in Denver, explains his research on the impact of wildfire smoke on the ozone concentrations at ground level in Colorado. Elevated ozone levels contribute to the rising incidence of asthma and diabetes, among other conditions. Dr. Crooks found that while ozone increased only 1% compared […]
Residents in some parts of the American West are already used to thinking of wildfires as seasonal, rather than infrequent, threats. As the annual acreage burned by wildfires increases, residential areas throughout the country are coming under threat more frequently. Residents in many regions of the U.S. must now prepare for fire season. In fact, as the fires grow bigger, […]
James Crooks, Ph.D., an environmental epidemiologist with National Jewish Health’s Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in Denver, explains his research on the impact of wildfire smoke on the ozone concentrations at ground level in Colorado. Elevated ozone levels contribute to the rising incidence of asthma and diabetes, among other conditions. Dr. Crooks found that while ozone increased only 1% compared […]