Chicagoland woke up to code red unhealthy air quality Thursday as wildfire smoke from Canada continues to plague the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region. For a time early in the day, it had the ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the current wildfire smoke conditions in the U.S. The original story was published Jan. 8, 2025. Smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to prompt ...

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The more researchers learn about wildfire smoke, the more worrisome the picture gets. Smoke contains ...

The world's attention will soon turn to a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel as cardinals inside use a once-mysterious recipe to create smoke that signals their progress in choosing a new pope.

Paige Fischer was driving to the picturesque Traverse City region along Lake Michigan for a family vacation. But even as she was leaving her home in Ann Arbor this week, the smoke from massive ...

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared ...

A wildfire smoke plume billows above Castle Lake, near Mount Shasta, on June 29, 2021. (Erin Suenaga/University of Nevada-Reno) As much as 70% of California was covered by wildfire smoke during parts ...

More than 130 cardinals will arrive in Vatican City within the week to participate in the upcoming papal conclave, selecting Pope Francis' successor. Though the process is done in secrecy, thousands ...