Public Health
The Hidden Toll of Wildfires
A huge aerial campaign seeks to understand the effects of biomass smoke on human health
Kyle Dickman is a freelance journalist and a contributing editor at Outside magazine. He is author of On the Burning Edge (Ballantine Books, 2015). He spent five seasons fighting wildfires in California. Credit: Nick Higgins
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