Scientists are still studying the long-term health effects of smoke exposure. By Dani Blum Extreme wildfires are becoming more common, more intense and more of a pressing problem for public health.

A thick, billowy haze of smoke from wildfires in Canada continues to darken American skies, particularly in northeastern states, triggering air quality alerts and health concerns across the country.

To understand the health risks from air pollution, you need to know what people are exposed to and how much of it.

Changes to the atmosphere and to the climate are interrelated and understanding what effects such changes have is a complicated matter. Wildfires are increasingly commonplace and many of their effects ...

It's not just sensitive populations who are at risk in the current poor air quality conditions covering a large swath of the U.S., due to the wildfires burning in Canada. Inhaling toxic smoke and ash ...

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During some of the worst of the wildfires in North Central Washington, a monitor near Omak, Okanogan County, reported air quality as “hazardous”, with particle levels more than 20 times those recorded ...

Traveling smoke from Canada's wildfires created an orange-tinged smog that shrouded New York City on Wednesday, obscuring its famous skyscrapers and causing residents to don face masks, as cities ...

This summer, millions of people across the eastern U.S. woke up one June morning to apocalyptic orange skies and thick, choking wildfire smoke. Over the summer, massive Canadian wildfires blanketed ...

Exposure to wood smoke can have different effects on the respiratory immune systems of men and women -- effects that may be obscured when data from men and women are lumped together, according to a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As California's Camp Fire continues to burn and the smoke spreads across a large swath of the U.S ...