In advance of a wildfire season projected to be among the worst, the American Thoracic Society has released a report that calls for a unified federal response to wildfires that includes investment in research on smoke exposure ...
May 3, 2021
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"Disaster management must take into account that those who had to run for their lives have much stronger experiences which will affect their inner lives for a very long time," says Igor Knez, Professor of Psychology at University ...
Mar 23, 2021
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In 2018, a faulty electric transmission line ignited the Camp Fire in Northern California, ultimately consuming 239 square miles and several communities, including the town of Paradise, which was 95 percent destroyed. At ...
Feb 9, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen virus-beating technologies progress at unprecedented speed. Scientists have raced to understand and treat the new coronavirus, teams have developed tests and built COVID-19 equipment, and deals ...
Jan 8, 2021
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One night in January 2020, I couldn't sleep. I kept waking to check my phone for news from Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. Fires had already burned through several sites where I'd researched the island's endangered ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Research published by the Medical Research Council in 2009 found that 300-400 fire-related deaths are reported annually in South Africa's Western Cape province. This study also found that of South Africa's metropolitan centers, ...
Sep 29, 2020
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When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Invasive fire ants with a nasty bite are limiting the spread of a dangerous meat allergy, new research suggests. But it's not all good news, as the ants themselves can also cause severe allergic reactions.
Jun 24, 2020
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New research published in Experimental Physiology suggests that fire service instructors are at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases due to higher levels of inflammation in their blood, and so their exposure should be ...
May 27, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Excess asymptomatic thyroid cancer in Fire Department World Trade Center (WTC)-exposed rescue/recovery workers is apparently attributable to the identification of occult lesions during medical surveillance, ...
Apr 21, 2020
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