When the nation’s leading experts in weather, water, and climate gather in Baltimore later this month for the annual conference of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), they will get a close-up view of the region’s fragile environment.

Today, Nature Communications published a study entitled "First close insight into global daily gapless 1-km PM2.5 pollution, variability, and health impact" by Jing Wei (Assistant Research Scientist) and Zhanqing Li (Distinguished University Professor) of the University of Maryland, USA and collaborators from the US and foreign institutes.

UMD researchers analyzed changes in the mortality burden attributed to wildfire pollution over the last two decades.