The smoke comes fromwildfires including the Tantallon fire in the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Nova Scotia province of Canada. According to the Nova Scotia government, more than 40,000 acres have been burned in the largest fire. Thousands of people have been displace...
Some “fortunate rain” in Quebec over the past two weeks has helped agencies reallocate their resources, said Bruce Macnab, the head of Wildlands Information Systems with Natural Resources Canada. “I think to some degree it’s allowing us to focus a little more on British Columbia, which has...
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Although there is a broad understanding of the relationship between climate change and wildfires, this does not directly tell us how climate change has changed the probability of a particular extreme fire season. In this study, we answer the question: what role did human-induced climate change pl...
"I've never experienced a snowstorm that smelled like smoke," Sonja Leverkus, a wildlands firefighter and ecosystem scientist based in British Columbia, told CBS News partner network BBC News. Men inspect the charred remains of a cabin destroyed by a wildfire near Fort Chipewyan, northern Albert...
The rocks began to fall on the mountain side; the gases did not come our way much, as the wind drove them to the east, but we got some strong whiffs of sulphur smoke. For the same reason little ash fell where we were. Later we went on to the summit, reaching it at 6 P. M.,...
This animated map of Canadian wildfires in 2023 shows the spread of wildfires and smoke across Canada’s worst wildfire season in history.
Native legends of the Nisga'a people tell of a prolonged period of disruption by the volcano, including the destruction of two Nisga'a villages. Several Nisga'a people dug pits for shelter, but approximately 2,000 Nisga'a people died due to volcanic gases and poisonous smoke (most likely...
plummeted across much of the northeast as smoke from wildfires in Canada moves south. Poor air quality can be hazardous. Before spending time outdoors, check the air quality forecast. Make sure you aren’t doing yourself more harm than good.https://t.co/CVx9g8Hm1qpic.twitter.com/aSPUS4LU...
"With climate change and droughts, it could double by 2050," DeLisle said. "So it's important for us to be sovereign — to have our own system to be able to to track all these wildfires." He said having...