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Massive plumes of smoke from the fires in mid-July formed trails spanning thousands of kilometres away across Canada and the mid-western United states, reducing air quality. [74] [75] As fires continued through August, they reduced air quality and caused hazy skies in almost all of Canada, as well bordering states and the Northeastern United ...
Air quality plummeted across large parts of the United States and Canada again at the end of June as hundreds of wildfires continue to rage out of control north of the border.. There are 499 fires ...
Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada in May 2024 and sending unhealthy smoke blowing into the northern U.S. again. At the same time, the southeastern U.S. is getting smoke from Mexico ...
The Washinton Post reports there are some 150 fires still smoldering in western Canada -- British Columbia and Alberta, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center. And while it’s ...
There are currently 414 active wildfires burning across Canada, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, with more than half (241) considered to be “out of control.” So far ...
Smoke from the fires caused air quality in Ottawa, Toronto, [98] as well as most of Southern Ontario on June 5–7 to hit the highest level on Environment Canada's Air Quality Health Index, the worst in the province of Ontario. [99] [100] Air quality also hit the highest level in Kingston and Belleville, Ontario. [101]
Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality.
The 2021 British Columbia wildfires burned across the Canadian province of British Columbia.The severity of the 2021 wildfire season has been attributed to the combination of extreme heat, lower than normal rainfall, and "repeated severe thunderstorms and lightning events" by the BC Wildfire Service, [2] and possibly exacerbated by human-caused climate change.