Poor air quality and reduced visibility are expected at times in Manitoba's southeastern corner — including Winnipeg — a large portion of the Interlake region, as well as western and northeastern parts of the province, according to the special air quality statement...
Smoke from Canadian wildfires caused decreasedair qualityin the central and northeastern U.S. this week — as seen in maps and satellite images that show the large-scale impact of the blazes. The National Weather Service said winds were continuing to bring smoke from the fires into the U.S....
The wildfire smoke coming from British Columbia is causing widespread poor air quality and reduced visibility, aSunday alertsaid. Online footage shared by locals from the Fort Nelson wildfire showed thick plumes of smoke rising high into the sky, with houses in the foreground. In some photos, ha...
There's also evidence that prolonged exposure to wildfire smoke can causeblood vesselsto stiffen, says Chiara Bellini, a Northeastern associate professor in bioengineering, who participated in a study of the effects of smoke inhalation on forest firefighters. "It makes it harder for the heart to p...
Where can I see where the smoke is now? A good provider of real-time updates about the smoke in the northeastern U.S. is the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ...
Smoke from western forest fires drifted eastward across the Great Lakes region, eastern Canada and northeastern US during July 25, 2014 and caused distinct increases in concentrations of fine particles measured at air quality monitoring stations during the afternoon. In this poster, the meteorological ...
Smoke reaching the northeastern United States from Canada in 2023 from firesraging in western Canadahas mostly arrived at fairly high altitudes. But since the fires in Quebec are relatively close to the northeast U.S., a much larger proportion of the smoke arrived in surface-level air. Around...
exists in the northern half of Alberta, where officials reported nearly90 active fires burningas of Monday afternoon. There are also wildfires burning in northeastern British Columbia, northern Saskatchewan, and the N.W.T., all of which ...
Environment Canada has posted air quality statements for northeastern B.C., in the Fort Nelson, Peace River and Prince George regions, advising that wildfire smoke will blanket those areas for at least the next day or two. The Chief of the Doig River First Nation near Fort Nelso...
Much of the sagebrush region has a cool season-dominated precipitation regime, but the north-eastern portion (western Great Plains, northeastern Wyoming) of the region, which has the highest perennial biomass, has a more summer-dominated precipitation regime (Fig. 1, Additional file 1: Table S2...