"Your whole body is affected," said Yang Liu, Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University in Atlanta. In a study published in January 2026, Yang Liu and other researchers found that repeated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's true — wildfire smoke exposure is comparable to smoking cigarettes. Experts share why smoke damage is so harmful to our lungs ...

Wildfires burning in Canada started sending smoke across the border on Sunday and into the week, prompting U.S. officials to issue air quality warnings in several northern states—and experts say ...

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, ...

Fueling the tremendous threat of wildfires raging in parts of the United States each year is the growing concern for adverse health effects resulting from smoke exposure. From January to October 2017, ...

While the EPA is funding research into wildfire recovery, it appears to have some higher priorities. The agency’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, for instance, uses the word “wildfire” just 10 times whereas ...