BILLINGS, Mont. -- Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive ...

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters. Source: Nature Note: Midcentury projection uses a moderate warming ...

Each winter, some Bostonians must head to a cabin in the woods to enjoy sitting by a fire. But, a new study finds the pollution from burning that wood comes to you. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study. The paper, published Wednesday in the journal ...

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 new study spanning eleven years of data has revealed a clear link between wildfire smoke pollution and an increase in violent assaults in Seattle. These findings represent the first direct causal ...

Smoke from the Green Fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest is causing unhealthy to hazardous air quality in parts of Shasta County. Pollution levels are fluctuating, with some areas experiencing ...

Fay Johnston receives research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Environmental Science Program, Asthma Australia and the health departments of the Tasmanian ...