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EPA data shows the air quality is improving in central Ohio. Smoke from wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma are also visible on the smoke map traveling over portions of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and ...
In Ohio, wildfire smoke in Akron created worse air quality than Beijing and Shanghai, cities notoriously plagued by air pollution. At the time, huge swaths of the Midwest had unhealthy air quality ...
People living in the Midwest and Northeast were warned of a worsening air quality index throughout the week due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires
After burning out its previous owner, the smallholder or large operator plants their own crops there, gaining de facto control over the disputed land [citation needed]. During the dry season, dry fuels readily ignite and lead to large wildfires, and due to the 1997–98 El Niño event, the dry season in Southeast Asia was even drier than normal ...
A peat fire near the Raja Musa Forest Reserve in Selangor, Malaysia (2013). The fires are below the surface, where the peat is smoldering. The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue.
More than 110 active fires covering 2,800 square miles (7,250 square kilometers) were burning in the U.S. on Friday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Fires are becoming bigger ...
1994 Karamay fire: Karamay, China 322 21 April 1930 Ohio Penitentiary fire Columbus, Ohio, United States 322 22 May 1967 L'Innovation Department Store fire: Brussels, Belgium: 312 27 March 1910 Barn fire Ököritófülpös, Hungary 309 25 December 2000 Dongdu Commercial shopping center fire: Luoyang, China 291 29 December 2001 Mesa Redonda fire ...
In Q4 2023, half of the cities targeted by the December air quality action plan missed their targets to cut concentrations of hazardous particles, known as PM2.5, while in Q1 2024 41% of the ...