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June 7, 2023; Columbus, Ohio, USA; A bicyclist rides through Genoa Park along the Scioto River in 2023 as smog from Canadian wildfires affects the downtown view.
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 ...
Windscale fire, United Kingdom, October 8, 1957. Fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms. [6] Soviet submarine K-431 accident, August 10, 1985 (10 people died and 49 suffered radiation injuries). [7] Soviet submarine K-19 accident, July 4, 1961 (8 deaths and more than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation). [8]
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. Below is an ongoing list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2023. Africa
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
The immense population growth in the People's Republic of China since the 1980s has resulted in increased soil pollution. [citation needed] The State Environmental Protection Administration believes it to be a threat to the environment, food safety and sustainable agriculture. 38,610 square miles (100,000 km 2) of China's cultivated land have been polluted, with contaminated water being used ...
The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission issued an air quality alert beginning at 6 a.m. Thursday for parts of central Ohio.. The alert issued Wednesday afternoon includes Delaware, Franklin ...