Sonja Leverkus, an ecosystem scientist in British Columbia who also works as a firefighter, told CBS News on Monday that the northeast of the Canadian province has so many wildfires at the moment "because we are in a severe drought for a third year in a row." ...
Canadian wildfires: Not unusual. 🥱 The smoke reaching this far South: Very rare. 😧 Canadian fires this big, this early in the season? Freakish! 😨 Limaye said, "The climate science indicates that this could just be the beginning. We're going to see fires start earlier [and] last...
Smoke from wildfires raging in eastern Canada filled lungs and turned skies orange across the northeastern United States, most dramatically in New York City and the surrounding area, for days earlier this month. Although people in western North America have become used to such conditions in the ...
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
It was a decent prediction. Yet it turns out a momentous climate effect has occurred faster, in just around one century, and earth scientists expect impacts —severe droughts,pummeling rains,rapidly-spreading wildfires,destabilized Antarctic ice sheets, and beyond — to grow worse as the planet ...