The searing heat from wildfires can transform metals found naturally in the soil into cancer-causing airborne particles, according to a new report.
While a growing body of research has focused on the impacts of the gases and particles carried by wildfires, less attention has been paid to the effect they could have on naturally-occuring metals within soil and plants.
But the blistering heat from wildfires can transform one metal, chromium, from its benign version into toxic airborne particles that put firefighters and people living nearby at risk, according to the study published in the journal Nature Communications in December.
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The searing heat from wildfires can transform metals found naturally in the soil into cancer-causing airborne particles, according to a new report.
While a growing body of research has focused on the impacts of the gases and particles carried by wildfires, less attention has been paid to the effect they could have on naturally-occuring metals within soil and plants.
But the blistering heat from wildfires can transform one metal, chromium, from its benign version into toxic airborne particles that put firefighters and people living nearby at risk, according to the study published in the journal Nature Communications in December.
*inhaling that sweet, sweet forest fire smoke*
Wait…wut
This just in! Smoke is bad m’kay.