🌫️ Global Air Quality, Wildfires, and Health: 2025 Update

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Every person reading this is participating in the same atmospheric experiment. The air you breathe in New York contains particles from wildfires in Canada, dust from the Sahara, and emissions from factories in China. We're all connected by the same thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds our planet.

The pollution crisis forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth: individual action alone won't save us from collective problems. You can buy the best air purifier money can buy, but you still have to breathe the same air as everyone else when you step outside.

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Anna Alari et al, Quantifying the short-term mortality effects of wildfire smoke in Europe: a multicountry epidemiological study in 654 contiguous regions, The Lancet Planetary Health (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.l

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