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Experts Warn Deaths From Wildfire Smoke to Surge in Decades Ahead

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Global deaths linked to wildfire smoke could rise six-fold to 1.4 million people a year by 2100 even with moderate levels of global warming, according to research published Thursday.

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Premature deaths from smoke pollution from forest fires in the world could reach 1.4 million annually.

Smoking caused by indigos can be a response of well over 70,000 additional deaths per year at 2050.

It is only necessary to see what has happened in recent months to see that the world is increasingly exposed to large forest fires that, unlike the fires of the past, expand increasingly voraciously, burn a larger surface and are more complicated to extinguish. According to experts, beyond the flames, these types of events have a significant impact on the atmosphere and, in fact, their smoke can travel all over the globe and worsen air quality e…

Wildfires continue to wreak havoc on health. In two studies published on September 18 in the scientific journal Nature, researchers estimated the number of deaths that could be caused by wildfires in the coming years, as a result of climate change. According to the projections in the first of these studies, carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires could increase by 23% by the end of the century (in (…) Read more In brief / Health , Fires

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Reporterre, le quotidien de l'écologie… broke the news in on Thursday, September 18, 2025.
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