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Smoke From Wildfires Is Killing Hundreds of Thousands of People
2015-10-29 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Dr. Praveen Buddiga knew he would find a packed waiting room when he arrived at his office that warm September day in California's Central Valley. White flakes drifted from the sky, as if he were inside a snow globe. The Rough Fire, a 152,000-acre blaze sparked by lightning in the Sequoia National Forest, was lofting thick smoke, soot, and ash into the air-and into the lungs of Buddiga's patients 35 miles away, in Fresno. As an allergist, Buddiga knows that wildfires pose a serious, sometimes...
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