Wildfire smoke affects everyone. But health experts say that children are especially vulnerable to the pollution that shrouded the skies over much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this week. NPR ...

Children, particularly susceptible to air pollution, have been at the forefront of concerns. In New York City, school systems canceled field trips, moved recesses indoors, and handed out masks.

BOSTON - Have you noticed a little haze in the sky lately? Wildfire smoke is back in Massachusetts. Smoke from wildfires raging in the western United States and northwestern Canada is finding its way ...

Wildfire smoke is bad for kids’ health. These moms are asking Congress to help. When 14-year-old Oscar came home from his school’s field day in June pink-faced and wheezing, his mother, Elizabeth ...

(Reuters Health) – - In a Finnish study spanning 26 years, kids exposed to parental smoking were more likely to develop plaque in their carotid arteries as young adults than kids who were not exposed ...

At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- Months have passed since firefighters contained the devastating wildfires that raged across 40,000 acres of the greater Los Angeles area — a swath of land ...