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When wildfire smoke turns the air brown and hazy, you might think about heading indoors with the windows closed, running an air purifier or even wearing a mask. These are all good strategies to reduce exposure to the particles in…

Receive free Wildfires updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Wildfiresnews every morning. Almost 100 people have been confirmed dead following wildfires that ripped through Hawaii over the past week…

The quality of air we breathe is vital to our health. When wildfire smoke enters our region, the air quality can degrade quickly and be unhealthy for many. According to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, wildfire smoke carries the same…

A plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed on Tuesday as large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave, with Algeria battling to control an inferno that has killed at least 34 people.…

5/5 © Reuters. A burnt hotel is seen during a wildfire on the island of Rhodes, Greece, July 22, 2023. Argiris Mantikos/Eurokinissi via REUTERS 2/5 By Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) -A wildfire raging on the…

© Reuters By Matt McKnight BICKLETON, Washington (Reuters) -A fast-growing wildfire forced residents to evacuate a rural stretch of southern Washington state's Klickitat County on Saturday after it burned more than 30,000 acres in…

4/4 © Reuters. Smoke rises from a wildfire in Rhodes Island, Greece, July 22, 2023 in this screengrab taken from a social media video. Tiktok/@blairsbrainiacs/via REUTERS 2/4 ATHENS (Reuters) -A wildfire which has been raging on the…

3/3 © Reuters. A view of a wildfire on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, July 15, 2023, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. 1-1-2 Canarias via Twitter/Handout via REUTERS 2/3 By Borja Suarez (Reuters)…

Article content LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison and two other companies have paid $22 million to settle U.S. government claims that they caused a 2016 wildfire that burned thousands of acres of national forest, it was…

Article content (Bloomberg) — Smoke from Canada’s wildfires was to blame for a power-equipment shutdown that briefly led to a grid emergency in New England Wednesday night, along with an accompanying surge for electricity prices.  Article…