Wildfires emit large amounts of smoke containing harmful pollutants that can drift for hundreds or thousands of miles away from their source, as shown by this summer’s Canadian wildfires, which created air quality problems as far afield as New York City. A paper co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers analyzes how drifting wildfire smoke impacts the U.S. labor market.
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Source: Phys.org