Scientists found water quality was degraded for months following a Southern California wildfire.
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Record-setting fire activity in 2018 fits with a longer trend of larger and more frequent California fires since 2000.
As the destructive California fire nears full containment, it has left behind an expanse of charred land.
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A NASA project is providing maps of satellite data to emergency response teams during the Woolsey Fire.
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People in Northern California and the Central Valley are coughing because of the noxious smoke.
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In many areas, air quality deteriorated as smoke from the destructive fire spread widely across northern California.
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The fire has become the deadliest in state history.
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Multiple fast-moving fires are producing huge plumes of smoke and threatening several communities.
A new experimental model that relies on data from NOAA and NASA satellites has proven remarkably good at simulating the behavior of wildfire smoke.
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Two lightning-caused fires have burned over 100,000 acres and are still yet to be fully contained.
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The fast-moving Delta Fire is one of several that have cast a pall of smoke over the region this summer.
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Scarring of the landscape is evident in the wake of the largest wildfire in California history.
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Winds carried thick plumes of smoke and pollution across the United States and Canada.
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Several large wildfires are blanketing the state with smoke.
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In August 2018, temperature records fell in the northwestern United States.
Several fires are spreading noxious gases and particles across the state—and to a lesser degree much of the country.
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Almost a quarter of a million acres of land and more than a thousand homes have been consumed by three wildfires in Northern California.
California’s Carr Fire was one of 98 large, active fires delivering smoke across the United States in late July.
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The fire was not the largest or most destructive in July 2018, but the position of its smoke allowed for a clear look at the progression of the burn.
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As smoke streamed toward San Francisco, more than 1,000 fire personnel were at the scene fighting the blaze.
Temperature, humidity, and winds contributed to the rapid spread of fire in Lake County, about 100 miles northwest of Sacramento.