Short-term surges in air pollution in New Jersey from the 2023 Canadian wildfires were associated with a higher stroke rate and more serious strokes, according to a preliminary study released March 3, ...

Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and lightning-started fires burned 93% of the area affected.

Short-term surges in air pollution in New Jersey from the 2023 Canadian wildfires were associated with a higher stroke rate and more serious strokes, according to a preliminary study to be presented ...

Northern wildfires can reshape climate for years, sometimes cooling the planet but also releasing carbon from thawing permafrost.

Between 2023 and 2025, more than 30 million hectares burned in Canada due to wildfires. The threat from increasingly frequent ...

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

Canada’s drinking water can remain at risk long after wildfires burn out, according to a UBC-led global review that found water-quality impacts often emerge months or years later—not just immediately ...

Wildfire smoke has increasingly affected air quality in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin over the past few summers. While smoke overhead isn't unusual, surface air quality has dropped to ...

A yellowish haze descended upon New York last week as smoke from Canadian wildfires spread in wide swaths across parts of the Midwest and Northeast. Expected above-normal fire activity in Canada could ...

The official evacuation alert was issued from Parks Canada at 8 p.m. on July 22, 2024. By that time, Tahlon Sweenie, the Director of Golf at the revered Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in the western ...

(Adnan Beci/AFP/AFP) The Canadair water bomber revolutionized the fight against wildfires after it debuted in the skies decades ago. Then demand waned and production stopped, but with major blazes ...

The official evacuation alert was issued from Parks Canada at 8 p.m. on July 22, 2024. By that time, Tahlon Sweenie, the Director of Golf at the revered Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in the western ...