Episode 184: Unnecessary Deaths by Fire
The Poetry of Science

Episode 184: Unnecessary Deaths by Fire

2023-01-23

This episode explores new research, which has found that human-initiated wildfire smoke is responsible for around 20,000 premature deaths per year in the United States.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.    

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read ‘SMOKE’ by Philip Levine here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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