"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 ...

As wildfire risks grow nationwide, NFPA’s 2026 Wildfire Community Preparedness Day funding highlights the increasing overlap between community resilience and occupational safety responsibilities. The ...

Wildfire seasons that once felt exceptional are now routine, and the smoke they generate is emerging as a far more potent public health threat than earlier estimates suggested. Instead of behaving ...

This year’s wildfire season has broken records across the Northern Hemisphere. In August, dry weather and strong winds from Hurricane Dora fueled the deadliest U.S. fire in over a century, devastating ...

A growing body of research ties environmental pollutants to worse health and shorter life spans for childhood cancer survivors. Yet medical providers lack sufficient resources to address these risks ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that ...