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Lyons and her colleagues argue, though, that most of the soot from these fires would have remained lower in the atmosphere and been removed by precipitation.

The impact vaporized rock, ignited wildfires, and created a cloud of soot and dust that darkened and cooled the entire planet.

There’s plenty of evidence that air pollution — a broad category that includes soot, smog, and other pollutants from sources such as traffic, industry and fires — can harm health.

Previously, she was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she wrote about everything from desert wind power battles to the sale of national forest lands and poor neighborhoods grappling with deadly soot.

He thinks that developing fuels that release less soot — as well as more efficient ways to burn that fuel — seem like better tactics.

Indeed, a common racial slur in Dutch is, precisely, roetmop, which means soot mop.

There is also soot staining the tiles, suggesting the bodies were burned or there had been a small blast.

Air pollution gets worse during drought; in California the problem is soot, and in Texas it was ozone.

Some computer models, he said, indicate that about half of the global warming in the Arctic is driven by methane and soot.

Ladder 118 looks small on the Brooklyn Bridge; in the foreground both towers billow soot.

As it passed out of the chimney, the soot left those long streaks of black which we see now on the woodpecker's back.

A rubber blanket was procured, and the soot from the chimney carefully swept into it.

Then he crouched trembling in the fireplace, his pretty green hair all blackened with soot and covered with ashes.

Fearing to be met by some of the guests of the Duke of Aquitaine, the serf had smeared soot mixed with grease over his face.

Upon it they wrote with pens made of split reeds and with a thick ink made of soot (lampblack) mixed with resinous gums.