As climate change supercharges blazes, livestock and wildlife are suffering from smoke inhalation.
the flames instead of to safety. “Carbon monoxide poisoning, if it doesn’t result in fatality, can also cause confusion. It can cause disorientation,” says Olivia V. Sanderfoot, an ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies the effect of
. “So there’s also this concern that maybe even if they have the capacity to escape a fire, maybe theyConsider the actual canary in the coal mine: The birds are so sensitive to carbon monoxide that miners would bring them underground as an early warning system. If the animal became ill, so soon would they. But wildfire smoke is more complex than subterranean air—it’s burning through plants, soils, and even towns, where it consumes plastics and other building materials.
That makes it exceedingly difficult to determine what in the smoke is causing a particular effect in a particular species, be it a cow, horse, bird, or primate. And the problem will only get worse, as the world warms and blazes become more catastrophic,. “These fires that we’re seeing now are far more intense and far more fast-moving and result in more severe damage,” says Sanderfoot.
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