As of Monday, students and staff at UNLV are no longer allowed to smoke or vape indoors or outdoors. The move to be a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus was announced by the university in April. In a ...

As U.S. wildfire seasons escalate in length and intensity, firefighters and residents in western states face mounting threats to their long-term health due to prolonged exposure to smoke. Urban air ...

This summer, millions of people across the eastern U.S. woke up one June morning to apocalyptic orange skies and thick, choking wildfire smoke. Over the summer, massive Canadian wildfires blanketed ...

The L.A. wildfires have coincided with a 16-fold rise in hospital visits for fire-related injuries, such as burns and smoke exposure. Although the smoke’s immediate effect has begun to dissipate, ...

It’s been a relatively quiet wildfire season so far in the Pacific Northwest, with not much in the way of large fires or widespread smoke pollution — yet. But a recent study found that more frequent ...

When wildfire smoke is in the air, doctors urge people to stay indoors to avoid breathing in harmful particles and gases. But what happens to trees and other plants that can't escape from the smoke?