Wildfire Smoke and Children’s Mental Health: Modern Childhood Is Becoming Biologically Loud (opens in new tab)

The sky turns orange at three in the afternoon. Your child becomes strangely irritable. Everyone sleeps badly. The house smells faintly like a campfire and low-grade dread. Parents tell themselves it is temporary. Modern life is always temporary now. A few years ago, wildfire smoke belonged mostly to distant news footage and climate documentaries narrated by soothing British people standing near melting glaciers. Now it drifts through neighborhoods, settles over playgrounds, slips through win...