FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2018 file photo, a girl works on a drawing next to an unused viewing scope as a smoky haze obscures the Space Needle and downtown Seattle behind. Tens of millions of people in the Western US face a growing health risk due to wildfires as more intense and frequent blazes churn out greater volumes of lung-damaging smoke, according to research scientists at NASA and several major universities. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
June 26, 2019
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June 26, 2019 4 a.m.
Smoke from western wildfires boosting health risk for millions
BILLINGS — Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect tens of millions of people and cause a spike in premature deaths.