WASHINGTON — Washington’s smoky summer wildfire season seems like a distant memory. Although the smoke has cleared, the impacts stay with us. And it's because of that wildfire smoke that nearly a ...

Maine's air quality continues to suffer from lingering Canadian wildfire smoke. We asked health experts why exposure to smoky air is so harmful to our health. Wildfire smoke contains a cocktail of ...

BALTIMORE --Air quality reached its lowest and most dangerous levels earlier today, we'll see tough air to breathe from thick smoke through the overnight hours. A CODE RED AIR QUALITY ALERT continues ...

Among the complex mix of particles that make up wildfire smoke, an abundant but thus far unknown kind has been shown to trap a surprising amount of heat, according to new research. These results ...

The particle pollution created by wildfires continues to increase people’s risk of hospitalization for months after the smoke clears, researchers reported May 28 in the journal Epidemiology. “Even ...

Wildfire smoke spreading from Canada have resulted in multiple alerts across nearly a dozen states this summer. And while these Canadian fires are largely contained, they’re far from the only problem.

Wildfire smoke now accounts for up to half of all fine-particle pollution in the Western U.S., according to a new study that blames climate change for worsening air quality and health risks in both ...

The ongoing wildfires in the western US have spewed so much smoke that they’ve darkened the skylines of cities as far away as New York and Washington, DC. For those living near the fires, the health ...