During the black summer bushfires Sonya gave birth six weeks early. Afterwards, when her doctor told her that bushfire smoke may have had something to do with it, she was shocked – she had not been warned that this was possible.
Unborn babies exposed to toxic smoke from the Hazelwood coal mine fire in 2014 were more likely to develop respiratory infections and wheezes as toddlers compared with babies who inhaled the smoke themselves, researchers find.
Australia has been choking on toxic bushfire smoke for months, and a cage full of monkeys in California is providing some clues on how that will affect our long-term health.
