Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggered air quality alerts in more than a dozen U.S. states on Wednesday, with health officials warning people in sensitive groups, such as children, elderly or those ...

Wildfires may be hardest on the people forced to flee from them or those who have to fight them. But a fire’s effects are far-reaching, especially when it comes to the air we breathe. And as hotter, ...

Ever wonder why the sky is blue on a clear day, but red when there are pollutants such as smoke in the air? Wildfire smoke fills the air with tiny particles. The particles, such as soot, ash, and ...

Keith Bein is a storm chaser—or whatever the wildfire equivalent of that is. An air-quality researcher at UC Davis, he drives toward fires, grabbing air samples, analyzing some on the scene and ...

North America’s summer of smoke may well be a harbinger of what’s to come. As record-breaking wildfires in Canada continue to sweep across the land, smoke has been suffusing the skies for more and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- You may look at the air quality index to see how smoke conditions are outside during fire season, but how often are you thinking about your indoor air? Experts say not having a clean ...

We know smoke can have detrimental effects to our body’s physical and mental health, but how is it affecting Oregon cows? Researchers in Idaho are now looking into some of the effects of wildfire ...

Smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning across Canada has been rolling into North American cities far from the flames. New York City and Detroit were both listed among the five most polluted cities ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, which has severely hampered the development of ...