10/6/2026
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Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it

Filed by Dirk Danger
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The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals β€” and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.
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