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Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and frequent, raising the profile of wildfire smoke as a public health issue. Now, ...

As the Los Angeles wildfires died out in January, firefighters trekked through the burn zones to take stock of the destruction. For every home they found leveled, they counted another still standing.

A long-awaited report on smoke damage claims by the California Department of Insurance was released on Friday, nearly a year after Los Angeles fire survivors began expressing concerns about their ...

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and frequent, raising the profile of wildfire smoke as a public health issue. Now, ...