The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recommended that residents in Central Texas should be aware of a sizeable dust cloud that will cover areas of Northern America this week.
Scenes across Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week strongly resembled the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. Winds topping 100 mph only added to the scars the two-year drought has etched into the area.
ANSON, Texas – A massive tower of dust blew its way through a Texas field, engulfing a tractor and a vehicle in dust and debris in its wake. The weather phenomenon, commonly called a dust devil ...
It can also be a risky one if precautions are not taken to minimize the amount of concrete dust floating around your jobsites. Many types of concrete, masonry and other materials contain silica ...
In early 2020, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) revised its National Emphasis Program to identify and reduce worker exposure to silica dust. According to the program ...
There is one downside to the process, breathing the silica dust created by the sand blasting process can lead to a lung disease called silicosis, which is not curable and can even lead to death.
So we just list some major areas below: Animation of the hydrogen dissociation and uptake on a palladium surface. The smart dust (a silica shell-isolated gold nanoparticle) reports changes in the ...
Most of the risk noted in studies has been from work-related, not occasional, exposures—miners and farmers who were regularly exposed to silica dust on the job. Work-related pesticide use has also ...
Parts of west Texas were hit by dust storms with wind speeds reaching up to 130km/h (80mph) on Sunday. Footage from Amarillo, Texas shows the sky turning a brownish red as dust engulfed the town.
A storm chaser found himself in the centre of an enormous dust devil in Anson, Texas, on Sunday, September 22, when the gigantic funnel passed right over him on US Route 180. Chad Casey captured this ...
By Lauren McGaughy, KUT News Oct. 4, 2024 Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and voting rights advocates were ...
ANSON, Texas – A massive tower of dust blew its way through a Texas field, engulfing a tractor and a vehicle in dust and debris in its wake. The weather phenomenon, commonly called a dust devil, was ...