In the wake of the Mountain and Sandy fires, here are ways to avoid inhaling smoke particles that can cause heart and lung disease. Wildfire smoke is polluting California, New York and beyond ...

Upstate New York looks like Mars right now due to smoke. This is from @NWSBinghamton. The sky is orange (only longer wavelengths of light penetrate the veil of smoke). Air quality indices pushing 400.

Three years ago, Nate Salpeter was sitting in his office in Half Moon Bay, Calif., when he saw a mushroom cloud of smoke explode over a nearby hill. It was the edge of a devastating wildfire that ...

If the sky over New York City looks a little hazy or even milky Friday morning, that’s because of wildfires all the way out in California whose smoke is wafting east over the country. Maps from ...

The Madre Fire, now the largest wildfire in California this year, expanded to 79,630 acres by Saturday, July 5, prompting ...

A meteorologist explains the pressure systems that allowed the smoke from the fires in Ontario and Quebec to sit over New York and the northeast, raising the air quality index to dangerous levels ...

A person takes pictures of New York City in a haze-filled sky from the Empire State Building observatory, Wednesday, June. 7, 2023, in New York.

The blaze is burning in a rural area of San Luis Obispo County, in the central coast, but its smoke has spread to nearby ...

Today, smoke comes from New York City, particularly fires in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. It has moved as far north as Poughkeepsie, New York, and east as Danbury, Connecticut.

Wildfires in New Jersey have sent smoke billowing over parts of New York City, as firefighters battle to contain the blazes. Residents in Manhattan reported smelling smoke on Saturday morning, as ...

New York City woke to an orange glow on Tuesday with the sun obscured by a thick blanket of unhealthy smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires. Hazy air blown in from distant fires has become ...