A hazy city skyline and quiet sidewalk strip tell part of the story up north in Canada, where dozens of wildfires rage. May 15, 2024 More wildfires bring air quality alerts to Twin Cities The Twin Cities metro and southern parts of the state are still under an air quality alert until 11...
But the right mix of circumstances had to align for the smoke to blanket major U.S. cities: A dry, hot spring set the stage. Then weather did the rest, said Bob Henson, meteorologist with Yale Climate Change Connections. In Canada, air is circulating counterclockwise around a low pressure...
Canada's 2023 wildfire season was the most destructive ever recorded, with 6,551 fires scorching nearly 71,000 square miles of land from the West Coast to the Atlantic provinces, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center. It wasn't just remarkable for its destruction, however, ...
Canada has seen an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme hot weather, while the number of cold days in autumn and winter has fallen, according to UN climate scientists, the IPCC. A cold front is forecast to sweep through Alberta from Tuesday evening that would bring gusty winds,...
The total acres burned so far this year in Canada is more than the total amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. since 2019, according to ABC News calculations, based on data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The acreage burned in Canada this year so fa...
Canada'srecord-setting wildfire seasonhiked the country up global pollution rankings — and for the first time made its air quality worse than the U.S., according to a new report by air quality technology company IQAir. ...
Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than airplanes do in a year, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than West Virginia, new research found.
A helicopter prepares to make a water drop as smoke billows along the Fraser River Valley near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, in July. [Photo/Agencies] "People are exhausted because there's kind of been mentally no real break. It's been one worry right after the other," Mark said fro...
Her expertise is in the Wabanaki forest region in Eastern Canada, which historically had a mix of trees. Over the years, it's shifted to be more boreal. "So we have now a forest composition and a forest type here that is more susceptible...
“If we get the June rains in the interior here, our fire season may not be so bad. If we don't get the June rains, yeah, we could be in for another bad, active fire season.” Lightning a formidable factor In Canada, 50 per cent of wildfires are caused by humans and h...