How wildfire smoke and air pollution affect your health
Zero: The Climate Race
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How to Reduce Forest Fires and Reduce Carbon Emissions
Reducing forest fires is critical, both for this topic of air pollution we're talking about, but also for reducing carbon emissions. What can be done to actually reduce wildfires and try and stem this source of pollution? It's a good question. And there are tools being developed, both from ancient knowledge of managing a forest through prescribed burns as they are called. But there are other ways in which you could map and have management around dowsing fires quickly. The US West Coast is really at the forefront of just given how intense those fires can be.
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