New federal funding will allow researchers in the Mountain West to study the polluted air associated with wildfires. The Nevada based nonprofit Desert Research Institute (DRI) has landed a $1.3 ...

Wildfire smoke from the Canadian wildfires in 2023 was linked to a higher incidence of severe strokes and increased hemorrhagic risk, according to new study findings.

Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more ...

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and ...

As the climate warms, wildfire smoke could become far deadlier in the United States, with projections estimating up to 64,000 ...

A study has found that wildfires are reducing migratory bird activity at stopover sites. Led by Wieland Heim, a researcher of the Migration Ecology group at the University of Oldenburg, a team ...

Record warmth and drought helped fuel a deadly wildfire season in 2020 that destroyed more than 8 million acres across many Western states. In addition to loss of life and property, the fires and ...

With smoke from Canadian wildfires coming to North Carolina for the second time in June, it has people concerned on the overall effect it will have on there health. WRAL News spoke with a doctor at ...

New research into the deadly blazes reveal changes to blood chemistry. But it could take decades to find the full effects. After wildfires ravaged Los Angeles a year ago, the city’s Cedars-Sinai ...