Climate Change Could Double Deaths from Wildfire Smoke

Yale e360
Sep 11, 2018, 11:46 am361 pts
As climate change continues to fuel more intense and frequent wildfires, the number of people who die in the United States from inhaling wildfire smoke could more than double by 2100, jumping from 15,000 premature deaths per year today to 40,000 by the end of the century, according to a study published in the…

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