The smaller particles could in fact be more harmful as they can get through the body's natural defenses and cause significant health problems.

Smoke travels hundreds of miles to harm air quality far from the fire, according to the EPA’s Wildfire Smoke and Your Patient ...

Byrnihat looks like many other towns in India’s picturesque northeastern states of Assam and Meghalaya. But while it is ...

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval ...

Smoking, air pollution and several other factors have led to significant disparities in lung health across the U.S.

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

Super pollutants like methane and black carbon cause almost half of global warming but only last days to years in the ...

New global research links air pollution to DNA mutations found in lung cancer among non-smokers, suggesting polluted air may ...

Private jets have long been aviation’s hidden polluters but new data now exposes their true climate impact and who is the ...

California and Oregon are among the U.S. hotspots for dangerous submicron (PM1) air pollution—those with particles less than a micron, or a millionth of a meter wide—according to new research.