"We'll do some smoke experiments where we directly take soils that are sterilized and expose them to known quantities of smoke-produced organisms and see what happens," Kobziar says. "We'll see if ...

As U.S. wildfire seasons escalate in length and intensity, firefighters and residents in western states face mounting threats to their long-term health due to prolonged exposure to smoke. The problem ...

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