When wildfire smoke dissipates, we tend to forget all about it. But smoke stays in the air for long after, influencing the world around us.
from these fires beg the question: What happens to all those particles and gases after the fires go out?
How high the smoke is injected into the atmosphere also influences how far the particles travel — and how long they stay in the atmosphere. Smoke particles injected into the higher layer of the atmosphere, called the stratosphere, can travel quickly around the entire world on high winds and last for weeks in the absence of rain or clouds to pull them out.
The effects on human health are fairly obvious. “Large wildfires can cause decreased visibility and respiratory symptoms hundreds of miles away from the fire,” writes V. Faye McNeill, a chemical engineer who studies atmospheric chemistry at Columbia University, in an email to, says Mark Cochrane, a professor at the University of Maryland who studies wildfire, climate change and Earth systems.
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