An out of control wildfire is currently burning in the Bat Cave Road area in Old Fort, North Carolina and has forced some ...

Researchers have shown that plumes of wildfire smoke can carry contaminants hundreds of kilometers, leaving a toxic and ...

The Air Quality Index measured 156 near Forks, Washington, and received a rating of "unhealthy," meaning some members of the ...

Wednesday marked four months since Hurricane Helene ravaged the western Carolinas - and residents in McDowell County are ...

Wildfires are becoming more frequent, extreme and destructive in the United States, especially in western states like California ... One major health risk posed by wildfires is the smoke they let off.

Most of the state's more than 1,000 wineries are clustered around the Columbia River, so the irrigation-dependent crop can ...

The West Pacific pattern correlates with high pressure, increased temperature, decreased precipitation, and higher burned ...

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as ...

The spiking levels underscore the added danger from wildfires when cars, homes, and other structures burn, researchers said.

In addition to wildfire smoke, outdoor air quality can be degraded for a variety of reasons, including other types of fires occurring near a facility that produce toxic smoke (structure fires ...

The Los Angeles area wildfires began with the Palisades fire on January 7 and have consumed more than 23,000 acres. While the initial focus was on the acute health effects of the wood smoke and ...