From the outside, wildfire smoke may look like a drifting gray cloud. But for scientists, these plumes are dynamic, complex, and potentially dangerous. They can stretch for hundreds of miles, ...

Scientists have begun to penetrate a mystery of climate change: the effects of smoke from forest and agricultural fires on the future warming of the Earth and how it influences the behavior of clouds.

The dramatic cool down and thick smoke from NorCal wildfires made for a particularly gray Wednesday across the region. Unfortunately more of the same is expected today, but by the weekend conditions ...