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Published online 25 October 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041025-5

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Iraqi fire pollution rivalled volcano

Satellites record biggest ever man-made sulphur dioxide plume.

Mark Peplow

A fire at an Iraqi sulphur plant caused the largest man-made release of polluting sulphur dioxide ever recorded. The event produced more of the gas than most volcanic eruptions, according to the scientists who used satellite monitoring to reveal the effects of the blaze.

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