Ryan Honary was traveling with his father when the TV in their hotel room cut to news of a wildfire burning in an area that looked very similar to his family's home in Southern California. His mother ...

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University of Oregon's Hazards Lab has been protecting Oregonians for decades. See how its rural wildfire cameras are helping this fire season.

Americans are hitting record highs. For the first time, more Americans now use marijuana on a daily or near-daily basis than alcohol or tobacco, a bombshell new survey has found. Approximately 21.4 ...

Did you know thunderstorms can set off smoke detectors? I didn’t until I heard the three dreaded beeps coming from our newly installed smoke detector in the living room during the thunderstorm that ...

Erin Cotton didn’t notice the smoke until her eyes started to water and her two children complained they felt itchy. “That’s when I remembered what I felt like during the Palisades Fire,” said Cotton, ...

A version of this story was originally published on Jan. 10, 2025. It has been updated to reflect the wildfires currently bringing smoke to the U.S. Interest in air filters and purifiers is spiking as ...

As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit.

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