Wildfires have happened since the dawn of time. They can be natural occurrences but have become more of a problem partially due to atmospheric effects. The Earth’s weather and air pollution mostly remains in the troposphere, which extends from the surface of a plant and up about six miles. This can lift in a severe thunderstorm. During large wildfires, the soot, smoke, and other particles can even lift to the lower strateosphere. What does this mean for wildfires? What are the atmospheric effects? Finding Wildfire Particles In New Places For a long time, scientists believed that the stratosphere only had particles from volcanoes. As more research has gone on, scientists have now found that emissions from wildfires and other smoke