wildfires
Washington state wildfires endanger animals, homes, crops, renewable energy farms
July 25, 2023"It's a firefighter’s worst nightmare because the humidity is dropping precipitously. The winds are picking up. And so the fire carries extremely fast.”
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Canada wildfire smoke prompts U.S. air quality alerts for 70 million residents in 32 states
July 20, 2023Some days, wildfire crews work as long as 16 hours battling the unrelenting blazes.
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The new abnormal: Climate change making wildfires and smoke worse
July 3, 2023“The climate changed so much that we lost control of it.”
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Canadian wildfire smoke disproportionately harms Black and poor people
June 30, 2023Those communities are more likely to live near other major sources of bad air.
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80 million U.S. residents under air quality alerts as Canada wildfire smoke swings south again
June 29, 2023About 16 million acres have already been burned by the wildfires in Canada — an area slightly larger than the state of West Virginia.
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