A powerful storm with an atmospheric river threatens to bring life-threatening flooding and debris flow from Los Angeles ...
This interactive map gives you up-to-the-minute air quality updates and health recommendations for communities across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties—including the ...
Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the ...
Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ... instrumentation,” they may not be reflected in the Air Quality Index (AQI) map. “However, they are typically visible to the naked eye ...
The advisory was extended through 7 p.m. Wednesday by the South Coast Air Quality Management District. It includes most of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties in the South Coast Air Basin ...
Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.
There are many pollutants of concern in wildfire smoke,” including ozone, carbon monoxide and other toxic gases, says pediatrician Debra Hendrickson.