Wildfire smoke causes at least 16,000 deaths per year in the U.S. and is predicted to get worse by 2050.
Over 1,000 people are still missing and the number of deaths is likely to continue rising, officials say.
The continent has seen an especially hot summer and quick-moving fires.
Smoke from this year’s perilous wildfire season has lowered air quality in Canada, the U.S. and beyond.
There are almost 900 wildfires raging across Canada, and the smoke has sparked air quality alerts again.
The fire began burning on July 29 and has claimed two lives as of yesterday.
Firefighters are scrambling to protect the historic trees from the fast-spreading Washburn fire.
Photos of the aftermaths of some of the most catastrophic fires from the past decade illustrate the devastation of climate change.
As of June 15, over a million acres of the state had already been scorched, the earliest the state hit that benchmark in decades.
The agency started the largest wildfire in New Mexico history with two flawed prescribed burns. A new federal report tries to explain why.
This weekend's wildfire adds to the growing number of active wildfires in Greece, spreading firefighters thin.
A nonprofit research group’s new online tool models the likelihood of a wildfire turning your house to ash over the course of a 30-year mortgage.
All workers "deserve health and safety protections from extreme heat and wildfire smoke,” said Oregon Governor Kate Brown.
The town of Laguna Niguel was in the path of a blaze that has destroyed over 30 homes this week.
High winds and a dry spring fueled blazes that have torn through villages in Russia.
Drought conditions are helping wildfires spread across the Southwest while evacuations continue.
The dangerous combination of wildfires followed by rain will be much more common due to climate change, new research finds.
Fires have brought an "amazing amount of devastation" to some areas around Dallas-Fort Worth.
The wildfires are currently burning some 70,000 acres a day, threatening habitats and livelihoods.
“We no longer have a fire season—we have a fire year."
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