Millions of acres scorched by wildfires in the Western US and Canada — an area roughly the size of South Carolina — can be traced back to carbon pollution from the world’s largest fossil ...

With wildfires burning in North America, it's important to know if you are enveloped in toxic smoke. The smoke is dangerous because it contains a mixture of hazardous gases and solid particles ...

Intense wildfires in western Canada have sent huge plumes of smoke sweeping across North America in recent days — pollution that has been captured in images by NASA satellites, aircraft and ...

Fires Have Burned 4.5 Million Acres This Year, Blanketing Much of North America in Smoke Nearly 90 large fires are raging across the United States, intensifying this year’s fire season. The ...

"The wildfires in North and South America were the regions which stood out most in global fire emissions for 2024," Parrington said in a statement.

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's east coast. Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Washington DC are ...

Canada is facing its worst wildfire season in history, with dangerous smoke spreading across much of North America. The wildfires have been coupled with deadly heat waves worldwide.

Metro Detroit faced poor air quality in summer 2023 due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Amid the 2024 wildfire North American wildfire season, it's important to know the risks and how to prepare ...

The west coast of North America and the east coast of Australia have been repeatedly hit hard by wildfires. For example, the January 2025 wildfire disaster in Los Angeles destroyed over 10,000 ...

Fewer forest fires burn in North America today than in the past--and that's a bad thing. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250211235653.htm.

The devastating wildfires that torched a record 4.3 million acres in the U.S. in 2020 made North America the only region in the world where air quality was worse than during the previous year.Most ...

More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find By Rachel Ramirez , CNN 5 minute read ...