But when smoke plumes are close to the surface, people are breathing in wildfire chemicals and tiny particles. Those particles, known as PM2.5, can get deep into the lungs and exacerbate asthma and ...

Wood heaters are estimated to be responsible for more pollution-related deaths than all the cars on our roads. This national ...

If you’re in eastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey and noticed a haze in the sky Sunday morning, you weren’t imagining things.

Officials are urging residents to take precautions as wildfire smoke and extreme heat bring poor air quality and health risks ...

Officials are urging residents to take precautions as wildfire smoke and extreme heat bring poor air quality and health risks ...

Officials are urging residents to take precautions as wildfire smoke and extreme heat bring poor air quality and health risks ...

Officials warned young children and those with respiratory illnesses to take precautions. For weeks, smoke from Canadian ...

On Saturday at 3:02 p.m. the National Weather Service reported an updated air quality alert in effect until Sunday at ...

The alert from the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which is in effect from 10 a.m. to midnight, includes the ...

State officials from Maine to New York issued alerts for fine particulate matter, a toxic byproduct of wildfires that is ...

Most of the Lower Peninsula has good to moderate air quality on July 26. Nationally, the northeast has the nation's worst air quality this weekend, although the Great lakes area has large areas of ...