states last year, worsening air quality and causing issues for people sensitive to pollution.Authorities are already bracing for this year's wildfires to be more intense as climate change brings even more extreme weather. In British Columbia, officials have already started upgrading and expanding ...
We’re just past halfway through the summer and this is already the most destructive wildfire season on record across Canada. Officials have measured just over 13,000,000 hectares of land consumed by wildfires throughout the country through Aug. 5. This far e...
In 2023, wildfires burned 15 million hectares in Canada, more than doubling the previous record. These wildfires caused a record number of evacuations, unprecedented air quality impacts across Canada and the northeastern United States, and substantial strain on fire management resources. Using climate...
Why does Canada have so many wildfires?By Ahmad Mukhtar Updated on: May 15, 2024 / 8:00 AM EDT / CBS News Toronto— Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Western Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British Columbia and neighboring Alberta due to the ...
June 2021 Region Canada Survey time period May 7-12, 2021 Number of respondents 1,500 respondents Age group 18 years and older Method of interview Online panel Citation formats Citation formats View options Other statistics on the topicEco-anxiety in Canada ...
Canadians face varied climate change impacts. They have already experienced extreme weather including costly wildfires, droughts, and floods. Several Canadian sub-populations, including its Indigenous Peoples (amongst them Arctic-dwellers), are particularly vulnerable, facing potentially cataclysmic destruction...
The government also has robust disaster management systems to respond to events like wildfires, floods and winter storms. Frequent extreme weather: Winter in some provinces, such as the Northwest Territories, is especially cold, with heavy snowfall and long periods of below-freezing temperatures. Howe...
The wildfires bring a lot of haze with them and have a massive impact on air quality. It affects hiking possibilities. That’s why I often say on my blog that I think September is the best time to travel around the Rockies, especially since there is a lot less human traffic and the ...
Daniels says she previously thought the next generation of fire ecologists, not hers, would have to contend with the “new reality” of high-intensity wildfires. “To have four of these seasons out of the last seven is shocking,” she says. ...
above-threshold area ratios all dropped sharply. At the same time in Vancouver, due to the impact of wildfires, the above-threshold area ratio did not decrease even during the lockdown period. With the start of the first-stage reopening in Toronto, the areas above different NO2threshold ...