The biggest impact smoke has on weather is air temperature. The smoke in the air can reflect incoming sunlight back into ...

Strong winds Monday night kept the Cram Fire burning into Tuesday, the flames already spread across tens of thousands of ...

Their early findings suggest that wildfire smoke is broadly and especially toxic. Burning trees, soil, and vehicles can throw ...

Smoke billowing from wildfires is polluting the air, worsening air and reducing visibility throughout Manitoba this weekend.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, highlights a new analysis from the Harvard Gazette showing that wildfire smoke has become a nationwide issue. Once confined to the western U.S ...

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” As much destruction as the flames from a fire can cause, inhaling smoke can also cause ...

It’s not just the toxicity of wildfire smoke, but also what the fire burns. Once the fire reaches a community and chars houses, it burns materials such as plastic that contain hazardous chemicals.

The new study shows that as fires have worsened, so has their smoke: From 2016 to 2020, the U.S. population experienced double the smoke pollution that it did 10 years earlier, from 2006 to 2010.

Dr. Jon Jimenez, an optometrist at Henry Ford OptimEyes, said he’s seeing an increase in patients suffering symptoms triggered by smoke from the Canadian wildfires.