LASALLE, Ill. (CBS) -- After an extra-alarm fire sent a billow of smoke into the air like a volcano in LaSalle, neighbors expressed concern about the chemical particles that landed on their property ...

A trash fire at Eagle Point Energy Center (EPEC), a waste-to-energy facility in Orrington, broke out on Oct. 1 and continued burning until it was extinguished on Oct. 11. Due to high winds moving ...

Wildfire smoke is no longer just a short‑lived air quality problem drifting over cities for a few hazy days. New research shows that when these plumes rise high into the atmosphere, they can spawn ...

Not many people would voluntarily fly through plumes of smoke emitted from wildfires. But atmospheric scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory do, over and over, ...