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Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada diminishes the visibility of the Empire State Building on June 7, 2023 in New York City. New York topped the list of major cities in the world with the worst air pollution on Tuesday night, June 6 as smoke from the fires blanketed the East Coast. Credit: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

Wildfire Haze Adds To New York’s Climate Change Planning Needs

By Juanita Gordon

Arthur Steubing, 3, and his sister, Vesper Steubing 5, standing outside their family's home in New York last week, wearing masks to protect themselves from wildfire smoke from Canada that was blanketing the city. Credit: Wilhelmina PeragineArthur Steubing, 3, and his sister, Vesper Steubing 5, standing outside their family's home in New York last week, wearing masks to protect themselves from wildfire smoke from Canada that was blanketing the city. Credit: Wilhelmina Peragine

As Wildfire Smoke Recedes, Parents of Young Children Worry About the Next Time

By Victoria St. Martin

People wear masks as they wait for the tramway to Roosevelt Island as smoke from Canadian wildfires casts a haze over the area on June 7, 2023 in New York City. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

Your Guide to Understanding the East Coast Smokepocalypse

By Kristoffer Tigue

Adam Norris surveys the wildfire damage at his home in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2023. - Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threatens to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Credit: Walter Tychnowicz / AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

By Wyatt Myskow

A woman and her children cross the street at the intersection of Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in the Dimond District of Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

This aerial picture taken from an airplane on July 27, 2021, shows the smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A forest fire in Louchats, southwestern France, on July 17, 2022. Credit: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images

Increasingly Large and Intense Wildfires Hinder Western Forests’ Ability to Regenerate

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke from Southern California wildfires moves towards the Pacific Ocean, creating spectacular dark skies as a local on Oxnard Shores Beach California captures the moment on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke May Worsen Extreme Blazes Near Some Coasts, According to New Research

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Firefighters spray down hot spots during the Mosquito Fire on Sept. 14, 2022 in Foresthill, California. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Wildfires Are Burning State Budgets

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Jayden Mitchell, youth volunteer with the Santa Clara Pueblo forestry department, plants conifer seedlings near a pond in the Santa Clara canyon floodplain. Credit: Sara Van Note

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

Smoke billows to the sky above where fires are spreading near houses Oct. 22, 2007 in Stevenson Ranch, California. Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images

Despite a Changing Climate, Americans Are ‘Flocking to Fire’

By Grace van Deelen

Pascale Fisher, a family nurse practitioner, checks a baby’s heartbeat at La Clínica's San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland. Credit: Ana Homonnay/La Clínica de La Raza, Inc.

New Toolkit of Health Guidance Helps Patients and Care Providers on the Front Lines of Climate Change Prepare for Wildfires

By Victoria St. Martin

Torched cars sit amid the cinders and ash that remain from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood below the Roseburg Forest Products lumber mill and Mount Shasta in Weed, California. The Mill Fire destoyed the historic Black neighborhood in early September. Credit: Michael Kodas

A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A firefighter works on putting out a hotspot from a wildfire on Friday May 13, 2022 in Mora, New Mexico as the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires burn in the region. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The US Forest Service Planned to Increase Burning to Prevent Wildfires. Will a Pause on Prescribed Fire Instead Bring More Delays?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Guadalupe Ruiz, 25, leads an all-women wildland fire crew back to their training center in Yosemite National Park in August 2022. Credit: Jennifer Emerling for The 19th

This Program is Blazing a Trail for Women in Wildland Firefighting

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Lorraine Capolungo near the site of her mobile home in the Creekside Mobile Home Park, which burned in the Cache Fire in Clearlake, California. Credit: Michael Kodas

Mobile Homes, the Last Affordable Housing Option for Many California Residents, Are Going Up in Smoke

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

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