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Wildfires are common in Canada's western provinces, but this year the eastern provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec and parts of Ontario are also reeling from out of control wildfires, sending plumes ...
By the time the Silver State Hotshot crew arrived from Nevada a few weeks ago, Canada’s wildfires had already scorched millions of acres and shattered all-time burning records.
As Canada’s wildfire smoke creeps down into the U.S., it’s also transforming. Chemical reactions between gases and sunlight create ozone, which further exacerbates lung conditions like asthma.
Canada’s wildfires are churning massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. In 2017, a bad fire year, wildfire emissions nearly equaled the entire country’s emissions from ...
Trees catch fire during the Eagle Bluff wildfire after it crossed the Canada-U.S. border from the state of Washington and prompted evacuation orders, in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada July ...
More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as wildfires remained active and diminished air quality in parts of Canada and the U.S.
The wildfires have now threatened the country’s oil output, potentially affecting the national average gas price, which currently stands at $3.09 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.
Fires have broken out throughout western Canada, including British Columbia, but hardest hit has been neighboring Alberta, a proud oil and gas producing province sometimes referred to as “the ...
And wildfires are normal in Canada this time of year but just not at this scale. So fire season typically starts as early as May, which it did this year with fires here in the province of ...
As Canada’s wildfire smoke creeps down into the U.S., it’s also transforming. Chemical reactions between gases and sunlight create ozone, which further exacerbates lung conditions like asthma.
Canada’s wildfires may impact gas prices: here’s how - Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told The Independent that if Canada’s oil production shutdown continues, “it ...
Canada's boreal forests have a long history of major wildfires, research shows. In fact, scientists believe the country's boreal forests burned more in the past than they do today.
Wildfires continued to rage across Canada on Friday, with nearly three dozen new blazes, bringing the total number of active ...