New Scientist3d
Setting fire to a million acres of California could cut smoke by half
According to an analysis of California’s record-breaking 2020 fire season, intentionally burning land can reduce the severity and amount of smoke from wildfires that burn those areas later on ...
E&E2d
Researchers assess damage done to marine life by California wildfires
Smoke and ash could poison plankton and other organisms that form the foundation of the marine food chain, biologists say. Heavy smoke, ash and debris from Southern California’s raging wildfires ...
Fire tornadoes are a risk under California's extreme wildfire conditions
As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but ...
Time12d
The Best Ways to Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke and Ash
The Los Angeles wildfires have ... the spread of ash and smoke. “Certainly air pollution problems are nothing new for people who live in Los Angeles and Southern California, but this is a ...
KPBS8d
Is the air quality index actually useful right now?
The air has improved in the LA region as firefighters get blazes under control, but there are questions about how safe the ...
The Washington Post12d
Fire tornadoes pose a threat in California. A fire lab shows how they work
As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California ... a fire whirl as a “spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke ...
ABC712d
Fire tornadoes are a risk under California's extreme wildfire conditions
As if they aren't already facing enough, firefighters in California ... a fire whirl as a "spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke ...
WBUR11d
Fire tornadoes pose a threat in California. A Mass. fire lab shows how they work
As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California ... a fire whirl as a “spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke ...
The Boston Globe12d
Fire tornadoes are a risk under California’s extreme wildfire conditions
As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California ... a fire whirl as a “spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke ...