Smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into the U.S., prompting air quality alerts for Americans as it continues to spread. But when officials and forecasters classify a city's air as "unhealthy" ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality throughout United States, including in the northern High Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, southern Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. This has ...

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Wildfires are raging across Canada, and the smoke is being pushed southward. On June 7, extremely poor air quality turned the sky orange in NYC and other parts of the Northeast. Here's a guide to ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Air Quality Index is a scale used for daily reporting of how clean or polluted the air is, and what health effects might be of concern. The AQI focuses on what you might ...

There has been a lot of talk about air quality levels as nearly the entire tri-state area has been engulfed by smoke coming down from wildfires in Canada. But what do all the numbers actually mean?

This week, millions of Americans are anxiously scanning air quality maps focusing on two colors: red and purple. Red indicates "unhealthy" air quality, and purple? "Very unhealthy." When did purple ...

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We've seen over the past couple of years, major wildfires can have *** big impact on air quality and sometimes bad air quality isn't always obvious. Meteorologist Heather Waldman tells you how to ...

The color-coded Air Quality Index categories you’ll find on the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow website rank air quality on a 500-point scale and are meant to give the public an easy way to ...