What's in the smoke given off by the Australian wildfires?
Friday, January 17, 2020 - 09:40
in Health & Medicine
Wildfires such as the ones that have been burning across Australia for months, pose different threats to the firefighters battling them. And, because the safety equipment used by woodland firefighters is far less regulated than that of their counterparts who fight fires in buildings and other structures, the long-term effects of these threats are still largely unknown, say two assistant bioengineering professors at Northeastern.