Their early findings suggest that wildfire smoke is broadly and especially toxic. Burning trees, soil, and vehicles can throw ...

Minnesotans are inhaling another plume of smoke from Canada this week, and an attempt to blame Canada's handling of wildfires ...

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In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests ...

Lightning strikes kill 320 million trees yearly worldwide. This causes significant carbon emissions, almost matching ...

Climate change made the L.A. wildfires 35 percent more likely. SCIENCE. How wildfire smoke affects your body—and how you can protect yourself. A particularly severe phase of that persistent ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, have heated the planet by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since ...

While much of Western Canada, northern Ontario and Newfoundland burn this summer, there's a growing debate about whether ...

An academic paper presented at the Brookings Institute's annual conference found that future wildfire risks are already ...

A recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California found additionally that 60% were very concerned, a remarkable ...

The contribution of climate change to average annual wildfire PM2.5 concentrations ranged from 25 percent to 60 percent in these states. At the county level, rural and forested communities bore ...