Pollution in smoke produced by climate change-fueled wildfires has killed nearly 12,000 more people around the world in recent years compared to decades ago.
Researchers said this week that deaths from wildfire smoke and attributed to climate change each year rose from 669 during that decade to 12,566 in the 2010s. In total, there was a jump in fire-related deaths from fire-related air pollution have increased from 46,401 in the 1960s to 98,748 in the 2010, but only 12,000 have been linked to climate change.
