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A person walks on a road next to a field with wildfire smoke rising in the distance. 
World & National News

What is ‘smoke taint’? How wildfires may affect your favorite wine

Smiling headshot of reporter Hannah Morse
by Hannah Morse
A person in a yellow fire-resistant jacket and hard hat digs into the ground with a shovel on a wooded section of a Northeastern campus, wearing a backpack that appears to be firefighting or wildland-response gear.
University News

Rising high schoolers study wildfires amid historic dry season

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by Peter Rubinstein
Northeastern students work on a robotics system in a lab setting.
Science & Technology

This robotic system may soon be used to prevent forest fires

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by Cesareo Contreras
Student Aobo Liu works on a firefighting robot.
Science & Technology

This robot can snuff out wildfires with cryogenic liquid

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by Rich McKay
University News

Afternoon haze

by Matthew Modoono
A charred car and house in Los Angeles.
World & National News

Are returning wildfire victims facing a hidden toxic threat? Northeastern health expert weighs in

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by Cyrus Moulton
Close-up of a black goat looking directly at the camera, with yellow eyes and short horns.
University News

355 goats return to the Oakland campus to perform a key ecological job

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by Peter Rubinstein
The silhouettes of three fire fighters standing in front of a blazing wildfire in California.
World & National News

The key to avoiding another devastating wildfire in LA? Fighting fire with fire, expert says

by Cody Mello-Klein
A landscape engulfed in smoke and flame.
World & National News

What are the Santa Ana winds that are fueling the LA wildfires? When will they die down? 

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
A forest fire in Canada photographed from above as smoke rises from the trees.
Science & Technology

Northeastern co-op student in Vancouver develops affordable wildfire detection technology

Headshot of Kate Rix.
by Kate Rix
A firefighter carrying a hose in front of a burning home in California.
World & National News

Palisades wildfires are a ‘cascading disaster.’ Is California running out of water to fight fires?

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by Tanner Stening
Residents in the Philippines are shown wading through a flooded road in the aftermath of a typhoon.
Science & Technology

Understanding the polycrisis: Why interconnected disasters are the new normal

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by Tanner Stening