A new study found that access to air-conditioning is a stronger predictor of emergency department visits related to PM2.5 exposure from smoke than factors such as race, age, and socioeconomic status.

Wear a tight-fitting N95 mask at the bare minimum, but a P100 is better, experts say. Wear long sleeves, eye protection, closed-toed shoes and cut-resistant gloves. Clean or decontaminate anything ...

Experts say that even after fires are contained and extinguished, health risks from ash, smoke, and toxic materials, ...

Wildfire smoke is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine particulate matter, known by the shorthand PM 2.5, which ...

The air quality index (AQI) in many LA regions looks good, but that doesn't mean the air is safe. Why it matters: The AQI in your weather app doesn't account for all pollutants caused by wildfires.

Officials are warning of windblown ash and other pollutants from Los Angeles-area fires and say air quality readers won't ...

Persistent exposure to heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and more will take a toll on people’s bodies. We must learn how this ...

This post was updated Jan. 20 at 10:09 p.m. Wildfires in the Pacific Palisades have burned over 6,000 structures, releasing ...

The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and ...

Multiple chemicals in cigarette smoke and e-cigarettes alter the function of a key type of lung immune cell. Cigarette ...

Air quality in Los Angeles ... vegetation," says Colleen Reid, a health geographer who has studied wildfire smoke at the ...

"Queer has always been resistance. And will always show persistence," said surgeon Blair Peters, MD, after noticing that the ...