From September 2019 to February 2020 fires destroyed dwellings, towns and killed farm animals and wildlife in much of eastern Australia. While the threat and experiences of fire differed, smoke became a quotidian experience for millions of people not...
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Person: McManus
Created Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest and land fires have been occurring in Indonesia since the 1970s, but within the last two decades the intensity of these fires and their effects on neighbouring countries has elicited high media attention and new political engagement. As a direct...
Person: Eilenberg
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
We undertake a nationwide US study to estimate how mega-fires (defined as wildfires >100,000 acres in size) affect short-term infant health outcomes in communities located within the flame zone. This is the first study to look exclusively at mega-...
Person: Jones, McDermott
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This webinar is part of the ABoVE Northwest Territories-focus webinar series.
Person: Billmire, Vander Bilt
Created Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of compounds containing multiple aromatic rings formed during incomplete combustion. Since many of them are known mutagens and carcinogens, PAHs found in the particulate matter (PM) from the wildfire...
Person: Benefield, Perna, Pham, Chong, Li, Zhang
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
We examined whether discretionary use of an N95 mask reduced symptom reporting in wildland firefighters. The study collected data from two Canadian provinces during the 2021 fire season, with each firefighter followed for up to 4 rotations....
Person: Cherry, Broznitsky, Fedun, Zadunayski
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Climate change is accelerating the intensity and frequency of wildfires globally. Understanding how wildfire smoke (WS) may lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes and alterations in placental function via biological mechanisms is critical to mitigate the...
Person: Basilio, Chen, Fernandez, Padula, Robinson, Gaw
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest/wildfires have been one of the most notable severe catastrophes in recent decades across the globe, and their intensity is expected to rise with global warming. Forest fire contributes significantly to particulate and gaseous pollution in the...
Person: Bar, Parida, Pandey, Kumar
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were...
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Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The wildfire season in the Western United States (U.S.) was anomalously large in 2020, with a majority of burned area due to lightning ignitions resulting in overall fire emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) in the Western region almost 3 times the 2001–...
Person: Albores, Buchholz, Ortega, Emmons, Hannigan, Lacey, Pfister, Tang, Worden
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES