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Wildfire smoke is laced with toxic chemicals – here's how they got there

  • Written by Joshua S. Fu, John D. Tickle Professor of Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
Wildfire smoke is laced with toxic chemicals – here's how they got thereWildfire smoke turned the San Francisco sky orange in the middle of the day in early September.Ray Chavez/Medianews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you’re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize.

Pollution from power plants and vehicles, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals in...

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