Wildfire smoke puts harmful particle pollution into the air. Exposure to it over time can lead to heart and lung problems. People in the U.S. are breathing in four times as much wildfire smoke on ...

Wildfires can benefit forests by clearing old debris, leaving behind fertilizer, and more. For over a century, the United ...

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared ...

WHITEFISH, Mont. — U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Shultz on Tuesday said America’s national forests need less wildfire and more logging, mining, grazing and recreational activity. Schultz was the ...

Wildfire has long been a part of life for many Americans. But recently, as wildfires have become larger, more destructive and longer-lasting, a new risk has come into focus for millions across the ...

In recent years, we've seen large wildfires burn towns such as Lahaina, Hawaii, and Paradise, California, to the ground. On Oct. 8, 1871, 154 years ago today, the deadliest wildfire outbreak in U.S.

Wildfire smoke is no longer just a seasonal nuisance—it’s becoming a persistent public health threat that demands our attention. As once-rare events grow more frequent and intense, the impact of ...

As deadly wildfires raged in the Canadian province of Manitoba this summer, Republican lawmakers in nearby US states penned letters asking that Canada be held accountable for the smoke drifting south.

Severe wildfires in Canada burned millions of hectares of forest in 2023. The smoke from these fires affected air quality across North America but also traveled across the North Atlantic to Europe and ...

The past decade in particular has seen an uptick in devastating blazes linked to climate change, according to the study. By Rebecca Dzombak The Los Angeles fires in January. Blazes in Canada in 2024.

In this March 2012 photo, Cedar Rapids firefighters, along with Ely firefighters, battle a large grass fire in a field along northbound Interstate 380 between the Wright Brothers Boulevard SW and the ...

During the twentieth century, the United States declared war on wildfires. In 1935, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service announced “an experiment on a continental scale”: every blaze was to be put out ...