Researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada have found that smoke from wildfires can transport toxic pollutants ...

Canada is investing $72 million on a novel satellite constellation that will monitor active forest fires across the country, ...

Researchers have shown that plumes of wildfire smoke can carry contaminants hundreds of kilometers, leaving a toxic and ...

In 2023, large portions of the US saw significant dips in air quality and visibility as smoke from wildfires north of the Canadian border billowed across the continent. Canada experienced a record ...

Wildfire smoke, in addition, has eroded decades of air quality work. Since 2016 in nearly three quarters of the contiguous ...

Last year, poor air quality from wildfire smoke in Canada spread all the way to New York and many states in northeastern America, posing dangerous threats to health hundreds and thousands of miles ...

Now, pollution from wildfires is reversing what had been a decades-long improvement in air quality brought about ... The wildfires that ravaged Canada’s boreal forests in 2023 produced more ...

For the Eaton Fire that includes La Canada, La Crescenta ... Saint John's Health Center. He said wildfire ash falls outside the range of what most air quality sensors can detect.

Researchers have shown that plumes of wildfire smoke can carry contaminants hundreds of kilometers, leaving a toxic and lingering footprint which has the potential to be re-released into the ...