Thousands of chemical compounds in wildfire smoke are interacting with each other and sunlight as the smoke travels. For people downwind, it can become more toxic over time.
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Smoke alarms are used extensively in formal buildings around the world to alert occupants to impending fires, but until recently they’ve not been used informal dwellings.
One vet suggested bushfire smoke had killed the smoky mouse – and asked, in a nod to the species’ name, if this was a case of “death by irony”.
Australians choked through a smoke-ridden summer during the bushfire crisis. But many of us are unaware of the silent damage indoor wood fire heaters are doing to our health.
In recent days, we’ve seen dramatic pictures of thick smoke from bushfires hanging over Sydney. Our first thoughts are with people living in the immediate vicinity of the fires, and the threat to their…
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Deputy Chief Environmental Scientist - Environmental Public Health, Monash University
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Professor, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Air and Noise Pollution, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Wildlife Health and Pathology, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Researcher: Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction, Stellenbosch University
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Research Leader in Respiratory cellular and molecular biology at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Plants and Environmental Quality Research Group, University of Technology Sydney
