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Warming climate making fine particulate matter from wildfires more deadly and expensive

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Scientists say human-caused climate change led to 15,000 additional early deaths from wildfire air pollution in the continental United States during the 15-year period ending in 2020 .

The study is the first to quantify how many people are dying because a warming climate is causing fires to send increasing amounts of fine particulate matter into the air.

35% of the additional deaths attributed to climate change occurred in 2020 , the year of the historic Labor Day fires in the Pacific Northwest and major blazes in California , Colorado and Arizona .

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