Unlike typical wildfires, smoke from the L.A. fires — consisting of toxic materials from burned down homes, cars, and more — ...

Vog, a mix of volcanic dust and gases, can cause health issues like eye and throat irritation, coughing, and shortness of ...

Wear a tight-fitting N95 mask at the bare minimum, but a P100 is better, experts say. Wear long sleeves, eye protection, ...

Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality advisory Wednesday for Klamath County, southern Lake ...

(Reuters) - Air quality in wildfire-stricken Los Angeles improved on Thursday from hazardous peaks hit earlier this month, as ...

Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the ...

Los Angeles is now a week removed from the day that multiple devastating wildfires erupted to torch tens of thousands of ...

The smoke was expected to most heavily affect northwest coastal LA County, and in areas nearest the Palisades, Eaton and ...

Ash from the recent LA County fires and burn scars formed by other wildfires in the fall can be dispersed by strong winds.

Depending on the fire, the smoke can be made up of various substances, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapor ...

As thousands of acres burn across Southern California, wildfire smoke is causing poor air quality in the region and beyond.