Dhaka’s air is getting worse, and waste burning is making it unbearable. While traffic and construction play their roles, the hidden culprit — burning garbage — is silently poisoning the city ...

Toxics in the air from urban wildfires may include dioxins, asbestos, and lead. But testing, until recently, for these air ...

Dec. 23, 2024 — Three years after the Dec. 30, 2021, Marshall Fire destroyed ... and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that researchers ...

Air pollution has been a problem for many years in Thailand ... Norwalk fire officials said no one was injured when a fire started in a garbage truck on... These microscopic particles can penetrate ...

The blazes that began on Jan. 7 charred thousands of buildings, cars and electronics across the Los Angeles area, creating ...

Like most incinerators, it used the intense heat of the trash fire — which burned at about ... Environmental Protection Agency tightened air pollution rules throughout the decade.

Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a new potential source of contamination: a site to process hazardous debris from the Eaton Fire.

The agricultural fire is just one of thousands burning across Thailand - and tens of thousands more across Southeast Asia - which cause chronic seasonal air pollution that has been cited as a ...

and more than double the urban acreage consumed by the 2018 Woolsey Fire. The EPA said it would regularly monitor air, sample soil, use water trucks to control dust and transport waste out of the ...