GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - On Friday, the Lee Fire created a weather phenomenon called a pyrocumulus cloud.

The wildfire that destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge​ earlier this month has expanded in recent days, fueled by hot, ...

Wildfire smoke can also have global cooling effects by making clouds in the lower atmosphere more reflective or blocking sunlight in the upper atmosphere, similar to what a volcanic eruption does.

A firefighting helicopter flies past smoke plumes during the Dixie Fire on August 18, 2021, near Coppervale in northern California. As of August 22, the wildfire had burned more than 724,000 acres ...

Elias: California wildfire smoke’s fatal effects raise liability questions Study finds it much deadlier than thought due to harmful particulates, leaving courts to determine who to blame ...

Wildfires generate vast plumes of smoke, which can reach the humid upper atmosphere, cool down and develop into clouds that can remain there for months, warming the air, drying out the earth and ...

Smoke particles can serve as seeds around which water condenses. Scientists have measured smoke’s cloud-seeding effect above many regions, such as the Amazon, while the landscape burned.

A new NASA-led study helps answer decades-old questions about the role of smoke and human-caused air pollution on clouds and rainfall. Looking specifically at deep convective clouds — tall ...

Wildfire smoke may lead to less rain in the western US Particles from wildfires make small cloud droplets that are less likely to fall as rain Date: August 12, 2021 Source: American Geophysical ...

Noxious wildfire smoke from Canada will infiltrate the U.S. through the north this weekend, just as African dust clouds approach from the east. They have nothing to do with the Trump tariffs and ...