Pei Yu

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Yiwen Zhang |Rongbin Xu |Wenzhong Huang |Tingting Ye |Pei Yu |Wenhua Yu | +18 more

AbstractUnder a warming climate, wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe. Multicountry studies evaluating associations between wildfire fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and respiratory hospitalizations are lacking. Here we evaluate the short-term effects of wildfire-specific PM2.5 on respiratory hospitalizations from 1,052 communities across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan, during 2000–2019.