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Track wildfire smoke with live, updating smoke and air quality maps
With wildfire smoke in the forecast, track the drop in air quality across dozens of PurpleAir sensors with our live, updating ...
Check air quality map in Northern California as wildfire smoke is blown into area
Air quality is unhealthier-than-average for some people Thursday as winds are blowing wildfire smoke across the Northern ...
Wildfires are challenging air quality monitoring infrastructure
The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...
Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest when people want to be outside
Wildfire smoke from Canada has made for bad air quality over parts of the Upper Midwest. Most of Minnesota had “unhealthy” ...
Fire district deserts leave many Cochise County residents without fire coverage
A fire in Cochise County is bringing up an important detail on fire response that many residents don’t know about.
AERONET: Ensuring quality satellite data for mineral exploration
In October of 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth. Today, we're combining ...
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FIRE ALERT: Cram Fire roars across over 64,000 acres as crews face another challenging day of heat, shifting winds
The Cram Fire raging in Jefferson and Wasco counties grew fast in hot, dry and shifting winds and challenging terrain to more than 64,000 acres by Wednesday. According to the National Interagency Fire ...
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More sections of the London Underground’s Piccadilly, Northern and Victoria lines now have 4G and 5G coverage
Today (July 10) TfL has announced that even more of the tube now has 4G and 5G, thanks to developments on the Piccadilly, ...
2 crashes close lanes on Central Avenue, Wolf Road in Colonie
A crash on Central Avenue in Colonie prompted the closure of westbound lanes and the Northway off-ramp at Exit 2W on ...
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Firefighters protect visitor center as wildfire grows to 1,640 acres in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Crews are working to control two fires in the park, one on each end, that are burning up dry fuel amid gusty winds and ...
Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted
A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...
California running out of safe places to build homes due to fires, rising seas
About 101,500 new housing units were permitted statewide last year, a 9% drop from the previous year and the state’s lowest annual total since 2015.