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 ...

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.

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 ...

For 49 straight days, everyone in Seeley Lake was breathing smoke. A wildfire had ignited outside the small rural community in Montana, and the plume of smoke had parked itself over the houses. Air ...

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 ...

When wildfire smoke is in the air, doctors urge people to stay indoors to avoid breathing in harmful particles and gases. But what happens to trees and other plants that can’t escape from the smoke?

Wildfires are spreading through Southern California, and where there's fire, there's smoke — which, research shows, can be as deadly as the flames themselves. Recently, a group of scientists sought to ...

This is a developing story. For the latest local updates head to LAist.com and sign up for breaking news alerts. Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted because of smoke from several ...

It visibly lingers in the air, during and after a wildfire: a thick blanket of smoke and soot coupled with ash coating parked cars. Santa Ana winds can spread these clouds of unhealthy air pollution ...