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Thick smoke filled the Puget Sound leading up to the weekend, plunging air quality into the "unhealthy" category in parts of the region late Friday afternoon - and these smoky conditions and cloudy, ...

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Wildfire smoke from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia has severely impacted air quality in eastern Washington. Winds from the east and northeast have largely contained the smoke east of the ...

This device is unable to display framed content. Click here to view this embed. The Pickett Fire, burning since Thursday near Calistoga, has prompted new evacuations and an air quality advisory Friday ...

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers from the University of Utah took a deeper look at the 2020 wildfire season along the West Coast to see how they can impact our air quality. Derek Mallia is a research ...

For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track these smoke plumes, but the view was only two-dimensional This article was originally published at The Conversation.