Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how the resulting smoke affects air quality, human health and climate change. ...

More than a year after Hurricane Helene reshaped the mountains of western North Carolina, the storm’s wreckage is now feeding a new danger: fast-moving wildfires burning through the same counties ...

WASHINGTON — Lightning will ignite more wildfires in the western United States in the coming decades as temperatures increase due to climate change, according to a new study that combined predictions ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rain showers will start Sunday across Colorado, including on the drought-stricken Western Slope where multiple wildfires are burning on hundreds of square ...

With wildfires raging across Colorado amid extreme drought conditions, the state’s inhabitants — human and wildlife alike — are bracing for impacts. On Friday, Aug. 22, around 207,500 acres were ...

Drought conditions are getting worse on Colorado’s Western Slope, increasing the risk of wildfires, even as several large fires are already burning, scorching thousands of acres and forcing ...

OITA, Japan - A massive fire raging for a third day in the southwestern Japan prefecture was brought under control, except on an uninhabited island it leaped to, the city of Oita said Thursday, after ...

This year is turning into one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory in Europe. Firefighters are struggling to contain out-of-control wildfires in western Spain and Portugal. (CN) — Wildfires ...

Sam Topper of Dover is the wildland fire supervisor for the Delaware Forest Service, leading crews that help battle wildfires in other states. When assisting at wildfires, the crews may work 16 hours ...

Smoke from the Bear Gulch Fire on the Olympic Peninsula is expected to travel from Western Washington to Eastern Washington tonight (Aug. 14) and into Friday (Aug. 15), according to smoke forecasts ...

According to a new study, most climate models exploring wildfires’ impacts on air quality overlook the effect of heat from a fire in one location on altering weather patterns – and in turn air quality ...