Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

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 ...

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 ...

Some wildfires are so intense, they create their own weather—thunderstorms driven by heat that hurtle smoke as high as 10 miles into the sky like giant chimneys. When these smoke plumes reach the thin ...

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 ...

Hundreds of ongoing fires in Canada have forced thousands to evacuate their homes and sent smoke to cities across the eastern United States. In 2020, the skies turned orange over the Bay Area, the ...

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 ...

As the American West warms due to climate change, wildfires are increasingly burning in higher-elevation mountains, charring the watersheds where the region’s vital snowpack accumulates. A new study ...

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 ...

Although winter storms and hurricanes have long defined Atlantic Canada’s climate risks, wildfires, smoke and extreme heat ...