{
  "id": 250598,
  "title": "Wildfires now the dominant contributor to unhealthy levels of air pollution for pregnant women in the US",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/wildfires-now-the-dominant-contributor-to-unhealthy-levels-of-air",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-wildfires-dominant-contributor-unhealthy-air.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Wildfires are well-known health risks. Now, in a new Frontiers in Environmental Health study, researchers in the U.S. have—for the first time—evaluated how prenatal PM2.5 exposure has changed over space and time on a national scale and what role wildfires play in shaping these trends.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}