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Prescribed fires can cut smoke pollution for years, miles beyond burn areas
- June 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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A new study finds that burning 500,000 acres (202,000 hectares) of California conifer forests each year with prescribed fire could cut deadly pollution from wildfire smoke by roughly 10% over a decade.
Originally published at Phys.org