Scientists have discovered that wildfires emit far more air-polluting gases than earlier estimates suggested. These hidden ...

NASA satellites observe a column of smoke caused by a forest fire over Saskatchewan, indicating an early and intense fire ...

As wildfires have ravaged so much of the country recently, an air-quality specialist discusses how the smoke choked her ...

Sitting around a fire is surely one of the outdoors’ greatest simple pleasures. Living on the coast, I enjoy driftwood ...

The best smoke detectors are loud and reliable, alerting you to a fire in an emergency. During testing, X-Sense and First ...

While the dangers of secondhand smoke are widely recognized, a new study led by Prof. Sun Yele at the Institute of ...

Smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors–sometimes one in the same device, in other cases, discrete products–warn of imminent danger, so you can get out of your home as soon as possible. The smart ...

The West Coast’s wildfire crisis is no longer just the West Coast’s wildfire crisis: As massive blazes continue to burn across California, Oregon, and Washington, they’re spewing smoke high into the ...

Though tobacco use is declining among adults in the U.S., cannabis use is increasing. Laws and policies regulating the use of tobacco and cannabis are also moving in different directions. Tobacco ...

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM), which runs Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in ...

HUGHESVILLE – Residents in the B Wing at the Wolf Run Village Senior Living Community on Route 220 were forced to evacuate ...

Black smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday and again Thursday morning indicated that a new pope had not yet been chosen to replace Pope Francis. Using smoke to communicate to the ...