But experts say it doesn't appear to pose any significant health risk to those who inhale it during the annual counter-culture festival in the desert 100 miles north of Reno, according to the Reno Gazette Journal.
Since 1990, Burning Man has been held on the Black Rock Desert playa, an ancient lake flat made of alkaline dust. As the event has grown from a few hundred to tens of thousands of attendees, the increased vehicle and foot traffic has led to more frequent dust storms. The most recently published air quality data was collected at Burning Man 2017, and the concentration of particulate matter — which can be anything from dust to smoke and ash — was so high that it at times maxed out the monitoring instruments, according to a 2019 environmental report by the Bureau of Land Management.
"If this is a typical week at Burning Man, it would be a concern ... but I think people understand that, and a lot of them stay inside" their RVs or other shelters, he said.
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