smoke

While smoke is bad for everyone, children, older adults, pregnant people, people with heart and lung disease, and people who can’t avoid exposures, such as outdoor workers and people living outside, are at greater risk of health impacts.

The Missoula Ranger District is burning up to 43 acres southwest of Missoula.

Kerri Muller writes, "It’s complicated having three airsheds and three burning zones, but there are real benefits."

When wildfire smoke fills a city, a new report says children from poorer neighborhoods are more likely to risk their health playing in parks.

Climate Smart Missoula writes, "The Held youth have brought to a larger stage the reality that climate change is not a future problem -- we’re experiencing its effects now."

Climate Smart Missoula writes, "Human caused climate change is bringing longer and more intense fire seasons, yet there are ways we can prepare and stay healthy."

Experts from the University of Oregon offered generally good news about wildfire risks for the West but uncertainty for Northwest

The particulates in smoke are particularly hard on people who already have respiratory challenges, but researchers are finding that smoke takes its toll on healthy people to a greater extent than once assumed.

A new study finds that black carbon rates have been increasing by an average of 55%, leading to around 670 additional premature deaths annually.

Tens of thousands of Oregonians who rely on wood stoves could be at risk for breathing higher levels of harmful emissions than allowed by federal standards – even if they’ve swapped out an old heater for a new one that meets federal standards.