Breathing in smoke can also irritate your sinuses, throat and eyes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anenberg said black particles in your nose also indicate exposure.

As in people who smoke or breathe in pollutants, the particles from a fire can turn the mucus and phlegm black. This is one reason that firefighters wear specialized masks and air tanks while ...

After decades of black soot routinely coating homes and playgrounds near Hamilton's industrial sector — and no clear answers about what the Ontario government is doing to address it ...

SootSense can help industries and cities in the fight against black carbon. Clouds of soot composed of particles of black carbon are extremely harmful air pollutants (in Finnish). Accordingly, ...