A massive cloud of Saharan dust has begun sweeping over South Florida and threatens to bring ‘dirty rain ’. The Saharan Air ...

Fluorescence lidar technology enables a better determination of the origin of particles in the atmosphere. The method can ...

Respirologist Dr. Samir Gupta says tiny, carbon-rich particles from burning plastic and organic matter can trigger health ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is engulfing much of the eastern and central United States and and is expected to continue for ...

As Canadian wildfires burn, northern Michigan areas and the Upper Peninsula have been upgraded to an air quality alert.

Air quality is taking a hit in parts of the central and eastern United States as smoke from out-of-control wildfires in Canada pours south – but that isn’t the only thing millions of people will ...

With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health, and even the weather. As ...

During the milliseconds that these metal oxide particulates spend inside the fire, they collide and grow into nano- or micro-particles. I collect these particles on a filter on top of the fire.

The fire victims say they only want what other victims of the January fires want — a chance to put their homes and their lives back together. Dean and Denise Wenner were sweet on the Cape Cod ...

A wildfire in Southwest Miami-Dade closed roads and snarled traffic to the Florida Keys starting on Tuesday, and it also displayed a lesser-seen phenomenon caught on NBC6 cameras: a fire tornado.

Less than two weeks after a huge fire in Moss Landing at one of the world ... Landing Marine Laboratories have detected microscopic particles of nickel, cobalt and manganese — which are ...