A new study led by a Stony Brook University researcher projects that, due to climate change factors, there will be more wildfires in the coming decades, and their smoke could lead to tens of thousands of deaths by 2050.

And the impact could be felt locally.

While wildfires themselves are not a major issue in New York, the researchers said smoke from fires in Canada and the western United States have caused problems here . In 2023, smoke from Canadian wildfires turned the skies over the tri-state region orange .

"Because of climate change, we project more wildfires in Canada and western U.S. and their smoke transport to New York," Minghao Qiu, lead author of the study published this week in the journal Nature, said in an interview with Newsday. Qiu is an assistant professor at Sto

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