Ruby Mellen

For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks pushing the mid-80s.

As wildfire smoke drifts into the United States, it's important to know how to reduce exposure and protect yourself from air pollution and its associated health risks.

As temperatures rose in more than a dozen Middle Eastern and North African countries over the last two decades, cancer mortality among women did too, according to a new study. 

People are often told to stay indoors when the air is thick with wildfire smoke, but pollutants get in. A study shows the most affected the parts of the world.

A draft executive order the White House is considering plans to overhaul how the nation fights wildfires by creating a new federal agency that prioritizes quickly putting out fires.

As the rain let up, communities — seeing some of their worst floods in a century — began rescuing people, surveying damage and counting the dead.

Forest Service Chief Randy Moore wrote the email after thousands of agency employees were fired amid President Donald Trump’s effort to downsize the government.

Many Los Angeles residents stricken by loss from the Eaton and Palisades fires are eager to transition to a new phase of recovery: clearing the rubble so they can rebuild.

Scientists on a research boat dozens of miles from the California coast saw ash and smoke from the L.A. wildfires — and fear their hazards will persist in the ocean.

Trump had started the process of leaving the World Health Organization in his first term but was not able to complete it.