Some of the visuals coming out of Los Angeles County over the past week show a vivid pink substance coating streets, cars and ...

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

In 2023, smoke from wildfires in Canada spread along the eastern coast of the U.S. and beyond, prompting officials to issue air quality warnings in places including New York, North Carolina ...

Last year, poor air quality from wildfire smoke in Canada spread all the way to New York and many states in northeastern America, posing dangerous threats to health hundreds and thousands of miles ...

But earlier in 2024, multiple states issued air quality warnings as smoke from “out of control” wildfires in Canada blew across ... a pediatrician in Orange County, California, sees more ...

The plumes of smoke are even visible from space. Residents of many fire-prone areas—as well as those far downwind—have grown familiar with the orange, apocalyptic haze of wildfire smoke as ...

A study, opens new tab in Maryland identified a spike in heart and lung illnesses in 2023 that was associated with wildfire smoke originating up to 2,100 miles (3,380 km) away in Canada.