A recent round of cuts at the Department of Human Health and Services may have decimated research into the dangers of ...

The Jones Road wildfire continued to burn thousands of acres in central New Jersey. Smoky air could be wide-reaching.

As wildfires intensify and more people move to fire-prone areas, health and forestland experts are searching for ways to protect people from breathing in smoke.

The Trump administration made cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which also halted a study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

Firefighters have responded to a house fire ... Emergency services were called to the blaze at around 9.45am, as black smoke began billowing into the skies over Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour.

A neighbour who lives several doors down from the flat said how they felt “rough” from breathing smoke overnight. See the clip above to see how smoke damage from the fire has climbed up the ...

The vast majority – 88.4% – had experience as structure firefighters, and 17.5% had experience as wildland firefighters, a subset of the firefighting workforce where the cancer risk is likely least ...

“I think it would be a travesty for the NFR to stop enrolling firefighters,” the official said. Recent research found that wildland firefighters are exposed to 31 carcinogens on the fireline.