"Most fires in the boreal forest of northern Canada are started by lightning. A one-degree Celsius increase in temperature amounts to about 12% more lightning. So the warmer it gets as the climate heats up, the more triggers there are for fires to burn," said Struzik. In Quebec, for ...
"The federal government is working with provincial and territorial counterparts, as well as with Indigenous communities, to ensure continued support for those impacted by these fires." According to the FOX Forecast Center, the combination of significant wildfire activity and northerly flow would help ...
The fires have scorched at least 11 million hectares — or over 27.1 million acres — of land across Canada this year. In June, the acreage burned this year surpassed the amount of land burned in 1989, which previously held Canada's annual record, the country's National Forestry Database ...
Smoke from more than 200 wildfires burning in Canada continues to blow into portions of the northern and western U.S., but forecasters are hopeful that rain this week could give firefighters the upper hand in extinguishing fires that have burned millions of acres and forced tens ...
Other provinces have also offered help to battle the fires ravaging parts of Los Angeles. Water-bombing pilots and crews from Quebec and a British Columbia company are already fighting the wind-whipped flames.
US National Weather Service New York NY New York City 1:15 p.m. The hazy sky and smoky smell are due to smoke from wildfires in Canada that continues to blanket the area. Over 400 fires were burning in Canada as of Tuesday night, including over 200 considered "out of control." ...
US National Weather Service New York NY New York City 1:15 p.m. The hazy sky and smoky smell are due to smoke from wildfires in Canada that continues to blanket the area. Over 400 fires were burning in Canada as of Tuesday night, including over 200 considered "out of control." ...
Fires have been raging for at least a week in British Columbia and Alberta. Weather patterns then lift the smoke from those areas, and carry them down across the Canadian Plains, and into the Upper Midwest. Over the weekend, parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin were seeing hazy skies as a resu...
: Chris Stockdale, a wildland fire research officer with the Canadian Forest Officer,told CBS Newsthat when smoke from earlier fires affected some central and western states, "international liaison officers" from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa would be flying in to help fight the fires....
Warnings after smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets large areas of US Hazy and dangerous fumes from ongoing wildfires have engulfed skies in the Northeast, prompting air quality alerts in at least 12 states. June 8, 2023 Additional Live Streams ...