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Articles | Volume 25, issue 19
Articles | Volume 25, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12657-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12657-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 19
Research article
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10 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 10 Oct 2025

Toxic dust emission from drought-exposed lake beds – a new air pollution threat from dried lakes

Qianqian Gao, Guochao Chen, Xiaohui Lu, Jianmin Chen, Hongliang Zhang, and Xiaofei Wang

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Numerous lakes are shrinking, owing to climate change and human activities, releasing pollutants from dried lake beds as dust aerosols. The health risks remain unclear. Recently, Poyang and Dongting lakes faced record droughts, exposing 99 % and 88 % of their areas. We show that lake bed dust can raise PM10 to 637.5 μg m-³ and exceed non-carcinogenic (HQ = 4.13) and Cr carcinogenic  (approx. 2.10 × 10−⁶)  risk thresholds, posing growing health threats.
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