Time to fight fire with fire! Literally! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Wildfires destroy homes and fill the air with harmful smoke. To reduce damage, land managers sometimes light fires on purpose. Carefully controlled, low-intensity burns can minimize future fire risk. But what about
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There’s something in the air… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Could wildfire smoke in the Amazon reach… the South Pole?! Enter Sudip Chakraborty from the University of Maryland. He used satellite data to track black carbon, a chemical produced by combustion. His team determined
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There’s something in the air… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Wildfire season is over, but the air still feels thick. Tingting Ye and team from Monash University in Australia were concerned. Could small particles in the air be harmful even months after a
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