Take a puff of nicotine for the first time, and your DNA plays an important role, alongside social and environmental factors, in shaping what happens next. In recent years, scientists have identified ...

Andrea Thompson: Welcome to Science, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! I’m Andrea Thompson, SciAm’s editor for earth and environment. Today, we’re talking fire and smoke. If you're ...

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more severe — and where there’s fire, there’s smoke. That smoke can travel thousands of miles. As more people are exposed to wildfire smoke, researchers are ...

The reason for the concentration of alarms in or near sleeping areas is obvious: Fires may have a chance to spread before a ...

While the burning blaze of wildfires is an obvious threat, wildfire smoke can also be hazardous as it makes outdoor air nearly unbreathable. The harmful nature of wildfire smoke comes from the ...

Minnesota is under yet another air quality alert Monday, as smoke from Canadian wildfires pushes into the state. Homeowners know the saying, "water finds a way." Add wildfire smoke to that distinction ...

In this GOES-16 GeoColor and fire temperature satellite image taken Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 6:40 p.m. EDT and provided by CIRA/NOAA, smoke from wildfires burning in the Canadian Provinces of Quebec, ...

What is particulate matter? How do I interpret the AQI? There's a lot to learn since Canadian wildfires suddenly sent clouds of hazy smoke over the border and into parts of the Midwest, Northeast and ...

If you smoke, quitting smoking is one of the great things you can do for your liver’s overall health, and free resources are available. Although smoking primarily links with its effects on lung health ...

In recent years, wildfire smoke has ravaged large swaths of the United States — from Northern California’s devastating 2020 wildfire season, to the orange-brown haze that has drifted from Canada into ...