Study highlights toxins left behind by massive wildfires firerescue1.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from firerescue1.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wildfire frequency and severity are rising under climate change and, with them, health concerns about the potentially harmful contents of smoke and soot.New research in the journal Nature Communications expands those worries.The fact that dust and smoke from wildfires near urban margins can hold respiratory carcinogens is well known.
Wildfires in parts of the U.S. West may be transforming a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart — potentially endangering first responders and surrounding communities, a new study has found. The research, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, identified high levels of the hazardous metal hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, at specific types of…
California wildfires could be transforming natural metals into cancer-causing compounds islandpacket.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from islandpacket.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Target shooters have riddled public land off Pine Flat Road, leaving behind countless casings and shells that make for an eyesore and environmental hazard. Now, who is responsible for the cleanup?