US EditionSmoke Won’t Stay North: How Canada’s Wildfires Could Impact the US
- As of Friday, June 6, more than 210 active wildfires are burning across Canada, sending smoke into the United States and Europe.
- Scientists link this severe fire season to rising temperatures, drying peatlands, and decades of toxic metal accumulation from past mining and industrial activities.
- The wildfire smoke contains carbon, arsenic, lead, and other pollutants that degrade air quality and exacerbate respiratory and cardiovascular conditions downwind.
- Mike Waddington said, "It's a bad-news scenario" as fires mobilize pollutants and worsen with climate change, affecting millions including vulnerable Indigenous communities.
- These conditions suggest long-term health risks and environmental damage while underscoring the challenge of managing increasingly frequent and intense wildfires under a changing climate.
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Smoke won’t stay north: How Canada’s wildfires could impact the US
There’s a haze in the sky across a large portion of the Midwest. The smoke coming from more than 210 fires burning in Canada, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, on Friday, June 6. The fires are affecting those in the north and impacting neighbors to the south. Canadians flee Tens of thousands of Canadians have been forced to flee their homes as many wildfires rage out of control, and air quality in the United States is dr…
A forest that burns thousands of miles away generates particles that can be housed in your lungs and those of your loved ones. That's why La Presse offers you to locate the forest fires and smoke plumes that come out of them live.
Toxic metals may be spreading through wildfire smoke as Canadian peatlands burn
A thick cloud of smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada is carrying more than just carbon, as scientists warn that arsenic, lead, and other toxic metals trapped in soil could be released into the air.Matt Simon reports for Grist.In short:More than 200 wildfires across Canada are generating smoke that stretches into the U.S. and Europe, raising concerns about air quality and long-term health effects.Decades of mining have left northern Canadi…
Smoke knows no boundaries: What Canada's fires mean for the U.S. in the future
More than 200 wildfires are raging across Canada, sending a thick blanket of choking smoke through the U.S. Midwest. Experts says climate change means U.S. residents better get used to it.
The smoke from Canada's wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe. As the climate changes, the far nort…
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