Crews around cedar rapids spent Tuesday working on some prescribed prairie burns.We got a couple of calls about people smelling or seeing smoke today -- particu ...

Wildfire smoke and prescribed burns caused 20,000 early deaths and billions in damages in just one year - Elderly, Native ...

Researchers estimated that smoke from wildfires and prescribed burns caused $200 billion in health damages in 2017, and that these were associated with 20,000 premature deaths. Senior citizens were ...

The introduction of fire to the landscape will help native plants thrive in the urban setting by killing off invasive species ...

Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting ...

Since the end of the 20th century, air pollution from most U.S. sources has decreased, but emissions from wildland fires have ...

Research shows harmful chemicals released by burning vegetation and homes can return to the air months after the blazes are ...

CLEMSON, S.C. (WSPA) – Recent wildfires are wreaking havoc on parts of the Upstate and Western North Carolina. Fuel, oxygen, and heat are the three things forest ecologists at Clemson University said ...

Opinion: Through the Clean Air Act of 1967, Missoula established its local air pollution control program to address air pollution, prompting the Air Program Rules including outdoor burning regulation.

A wildfire damaged the woods near the old Greens Bridge golf course outside Garland last weekend. A ban on all outdoor burning is currently in effect for Sampson County until further notice. Despite a ...

The order also reinforces that it is illegal to burn household refuse outdoors in neighborhoods or on properties smaller than five acres, per Local Government Code Section 352.082. The ban will remain ...

Evacuations remain in effect for specific ... that a 3-mile prescribed burn took place Sunday and that more prescribed fire was likely Monday, with smoke causing low visibility for motorists ...