Learn about the lasting impact of wildfire smoke on urban surfaces and human health. Discover how these toxic pollutants affect us long after the flames have gone.

Studies have linked wildfire smoke with higher rates of heart attacks ... risk of lung cancer and a 10% higher risk of brain tumors. Exposure to the 2018 Camp Fire in California was linked to changes ...

Researchers have shown that plumes of wildfire smoke can carry contaminants hundreds of kilometers, leaving a toxic and ...

Rod Miller writes, "Rawhide Ricky from Rawlins perked up and informed his colleagues, 'All we gotta do is get a letter from a ...

Researchers have shown that plumes of wildfire smoke can carry contaminants hundreds of kilometers, leaving a toxic and lingering footprint which has the potential to be re-released into the ...

Officials are warning of windblown ash and other pollutants from Los Angeles-area fires and say air quality readers won't pick up on the ash pollutants.

The smell of a “chemical campfire” has been detected at some ... but were nonetheless filled with ash and smoke damage.” Some homes were able to survive the fires, owing to architectural ...

Mahakumbh fire: Smoke billowing out of tents after a blaze erupted at Gita Press camp at Mahakumbh Mela on Sunday.(PTI) Teams of the state disaster response force (SDRF), national disaster ...

Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics." The health impacts could reverberate long after ...

The blaze continued to send smoke over the community of Moss Landing and the Elkhorn Slough area in northern Monterey County on Friday, but firefighters sounded a note of optimism by midday.