Wildfire Smoke (IMAGE)

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Wildfire Smoke

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Smoke from the Fourmile Canyon wildfire west of Boulder, Colo. last fall flows toward the city. A new NOAA study found isocyanic acid in the smoke from that fire -- and in urban Los Angeles air, in cigarette smoke, and in laboratory-simulated wildfires. That acid has been linked with health effects from cataracts to cardiovascular disease.

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Daniel Lack, NOAA/CIRES

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