A study reports that, around the world, wildfires and prescribed burns could emit substantially more gases, including ones ...

A new study of the impact of the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires has found that even after fires are extinguished, ...

As fires burn the landscape, they spew airborne gases and particles, though their impact on air pollution might be ...

Wildfires may be sending far more harmful pollution into the air than scientists previously believed, researchers said in a ...

Updated global data show wildfire smoke pollution is higher than past estimates, with implications for air quality and ...

Microplastics in rivers, lakes, and oceans aren’t just drifting debris—they’re constantly leaking invisible clouds of ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

Scientists have discovered that wildfires emit far more air-polluting gases than earlier estimates suggested. These hidden ...

In 2013, the Curiosity rover drilled this hole, which measures about 0.6 inches wide and 2.6 inches deep, into martian rock. The sample is now thought to contain long-chain organic molecules. NASA / ...