sooty

Now stored in sealed plastic bags, the sooty plumes will help answer questions about how chronic smoke exposure affects birds, and what exactly the animals were exposed to during L.A.’s firestorms.

He woke up Thursday morning with a bloody nose and a sooty black crust in the corners of his eyes.

An exhausted and sooty Mark Turner had just returned Wednesday from inspecting his home in Altadena and removing valuables, and he was showing 13-year-old daughter May some photographs of the devastation.

“This soil was so sooty and full of carbon,” the University of Montreal archaeologist recalls.

They compared reefs next to islands with thriving populations of seabirds, such as red-footed boobies, sooty terns and lesser noddies, against reefs next to islands with few seabirds.