{"id":214916,"date":"2025-05-28T01:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/reno-air-quality-study-illuminates-wider-atmospheric-and-public-health-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:12:53","slug":"reno-air-quality-study-illuminates-wider-atmospheric-and-public-health-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/reno-air-quality-study-illuminates-wider-atmospheric-and-public-health-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke","title":{"rendered":"Reno air quality study illuminates wider atmospheric and public health impacts of wildfire smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reno-air-quality-study-illuminates-wider-atmospheric-and-public-health-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health, and even the weather.<\/p>\n<p>As fires burn, they release enormous amounts of aerosols\u2014the vaporized remains of burning trees and homes that enter the atmosphere and the air we breathe. Now, a new study dissects these aerosols and gases to pinpoint their potential effects on our health as well as the planet\u2019s short and long-term weather.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/xlink.rsc.org\/?DOI=D5EA00007F\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Environmental Science: Atmospheres<\/i>, measured <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/air+quality\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">air quality<\/a> in Reno, Nevada over a 19-month period between 2017 and 2020 to capture both smoky and clear days. During this timeframe, smoke from more than 106 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wildfires\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wildfires<\/a> impacted the city\u2019s air. DRI scientists Siying Lu and Andrey Khlystov led the research, which found increases in both fine aerosols (known as PM 2.5 for the size of the particulate matter) and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+monoxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon monoxide<\/a> during smoky days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health, and even the weather. As fires burn, they release enormous amounts of aerosols\u2014the vaporized remains of burning trees and homes that enter the atmosphere and the air we breathe. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}