As wildfires grow larger and more frequent across the West, researchers from Colorado, Utah, and California are digging into how smoke affects the air-and our health. In a new study published in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildfires in the western United States, such as the one pictured earlier this year in Los Angeles, have contributed to global ...

You might enjoy backyard fires, but many cities are tightening rules because smoke worsens air quality and raises health and safety risks for neighbors. Local governments are acting to limit backyard ...

Wildfire smoke puts harmful particle pollution into the air. Exposure to it over time can lead to heart and lung problems. People in the U.S. are breathing in four times as much wildfire smoke on ...

LANSING, MI — Michigan regulators are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to discount several high ozone days tied to wildfire smoke as they seek to ease air quality restrictions in parts ...

Plumes of fiery smoke drift over Santa Monica at night as the Pacific Palisades fire burns near Los Angeles on January 7, 2025. (Ward DeWitt/Getty Images) When wildfires began racing through the Los ...

The air above St. Louis on Thursday morning doesn't just smell bad, it's also dangerous for some people. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources said the city's air fell under the "Orange" level ...

Two new studies have identified an alarming connection between exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy and autism in ...

Human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases and resulting climate change harm the health of people in the United States. Evidence since 2009 supports and strengthens EPA (2009a) conclusions and has ...

Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how the resulting smoke affects air quality, human health and climate change. ...