BUFFALO, N.Y. — What role did a lack of ice on Lake Erie play in Buffalo’s 2022 blizzard? What are the chances that wildfire smoke from Canada will make its way to Western New York again?

A “dirty blizzard” bombarded the Gulf of Mexico seafloor with pollution from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill for months after workers sealed the leak, new research shows. Marine snow, an organic ...