ArticleNature communications2023
Metal toxin threat in wildland fires determined by geology and fire severity.
Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Narrative review of wildfire smoke interventions: considering the unique vulnerabilities of children and pregnant individuals.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Review
- Wildfire smoke-related PMEnvironment international · 2026Article
- Post-wildfire water quality and aquatic ecosystem response in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: science and monitoring gaps.Environmental research. Water · 2026Article
- Nonlinear Redox Transformations of Chromium in Soil during Wildfire Heating: The Critical Role of Iron Mineralogy.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Wildfire Produces Transient Minerals: Speciation, Reactivity, and Fate of Iron and Manganese in Surface Soils Post Wildfire.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Immune impacts of fire smoke exposure.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Occupational health in the era of climate change and the green transition: a call for research.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2025Review
- Lead source apportionment and climatic impacts in rural environmental justice mining communities.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Geographic patterns in wildland fire exposures and county-level lung cancer mortality in the United States.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- We cannot ignore the cancer risks of wildfires.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2025Article
- Comparative Assessment of the Impacts of Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Ash on Growth of the DiatomNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- CardioRespiratory Effects of Wildfire Suppression (CREWS) study: an experimental overview.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Dynamic responses of gut microbiota to agricultural and wildfire ash: insights from different amphibian developmental stages.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Association of Urinary Metals With Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and All-Cause Mortality in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).Circulation · 2024Article
- Physicochemical Characterization of the Particulate Matter in New Jersey/New York City Area, Resulting from the Canadian Quebec Wildfires in June 2023.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Hydrogel Extinguishants.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Toward a Mechanism-Driven Integrated Framework to Link Human Exposure to Multiple Toxic Metal(loid) Species with Environmental Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Microenvironment heterogeneity affected by anthropogenic wildfire-perturbed soil mediates bacterial community inFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Accentuated by climate change, catastrophic wildfires are a growing, distributed global public health risk from inhalation of smoke and dust. Underrecognized, however, are the health threats arising from fire-altered toxic metals natural to soils and plants. Here, we demonstrate that high temperatures during California wildfires catalyzed widespread transformation of chromium to its carcinogenic form in soil and ash, as hexavalent chromium, particularly in areas with metal-rich geologies (e.g., serpentinite). In wildfire ash, we observed dangerous levels (327-13,100 µg kg
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