By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
AP Science Writer
SAN DIEGO – While most people give it the brushoff, a panel of scientists gathered Friday to focus on dust. Dust in the air. Dust in the oceans. Dust in your lungs. Good dust. Bad dust. And not a can of Pledge in sight.
The scene, a conference room at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in usually sunny Southern California, the land where recent wildfires filled the air with smoke and dust.
Some researchers found fault with dust – “geotoxicology” Geoffrey S. Plumlee of the U.S. Geological Survey calls it.