Daily Mail News – Science & Tech
By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR
Published: 09:51 EDT, 7 April 2026 | Updated: 11:35 EDT, 7 April 2026
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been warned to stay inside for several days this week as toxins that can harm the lungs fill the air in the Midwest.
Air quality meters registered increasing levels of fine particulate matter across a 100-mile swath of Kansas and northern Oklahoma on Tuesday morning.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other independent air quality monitors found the worst of the plume over Wichita, Kansas, where the air was deemed ‘unhealthy’ for anyone spending an extended period of time outdoors.
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