Half of the world’s population has been exposed to heat waves and wildfire smoke at the same time

Climate change is a global phenomenon, meaning that everyone, in some way, will feel its devastating impacts. And increasingly, those impacts are happening simultaneously: Over the past two decades, more than half of the world’s population has experienced simultaneous heat waves and wildfires, occurring on the same day, a study found. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, published their findings this week in the journal Science Advances. The study looked at 20...