This year, amid an ongoing megadrought across the Southwest, the Department of the Interior announced water rationing measures to states that rely on supplies from the dwindling Colorado River.
“During the 2020 California wildfire season, my team conducted a study on healthy individuals and found alarmingly increased numbers of abnormal, activated immune cells in the peripheral blood. These cells are normally responsible for protecting against inflammation and infections, but when altered by inhalation of wildfire smoke, they become the ones promoting inflammation,” Dr.
Earlier this year, Swain co-authored another study that found that rising temperatures have essentiallythat could transform low-lying areas in the state into a “vast inland sea” and rack up a trillion dollars in losses. People gather after sunset amid smoke from wildfires at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Sept. 13, 2020.
“It’s personal. It’s front and center [in Colorado],” Devon Herndon, a therapist who treats patients for climate anxiety in the tiny mountain town of Cotopaxi, two and a half hours south of Denver,. “Our forests are dead and dying rapidly. It’s no longer getting cold enough to kill the parasitic bugs in our pine trees. Then we have a whole bunch of standing dead [trees] that are giving fuel to the wildfires.
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