The altitude of the smoke matters. If a plume is high in the atmosphere, it won’t affect the air people breathe – it simply floats by, far overhead. But when smoke plumes are close to the surface, ...

TEMPO makes it possible to determine a smoke plume’s height by providing data on how much the oxygen molecules absorb sunlight at the 688 nanometer wavelength. Smoke plumes that are high in the ...

That smoke area had doubled in size by Sunday, covering more than 1.2 million square miles in Canada. Heavy smoke also overspread about 750,000 square miles of the US on Sunday.

The wildfire smoke forecast for the U.S. for Saturday, May 31, at 6 p.m. ET. CBS News Canadian wildfire smoke led to sweeping air quality issues across the U.S. back in 2023, when hundreds of ...

STORY: :: @d_morice via Instagram:: July 2, 2025:: Crete, Greece:: A tourist evacuating his hotel filmed this video of smoke spewing from a wildfire on CreteThe video, filmed from inside a bus ...

Smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada has spread over 5,000 miles across the Atlantic over the last week — reaching as far as parts of Russia. Western Greenland and the Arctic Archipelago ...

That smoke area had doubled in size by Sunday, covering more than 1.2 million square miles in Canada. Heavy smoke also overspread about 750,000 square miles of the US on Sunday.