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Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out

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Tags: climate change, pollution.air, canada, usa, wildfires, firefighting, prescribed burning, ecosystems, disasters.natural, prevention.disaster, author.alaa elassar, source.cnn
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/01/us/canada-wildfire-smoke-us-air-quality/index.html

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Published
Jul 1 2023

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  1. isopod
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    Interestingly, the quantity of fire starts hasn't really changed much this year versus the average. It's just a bit higher. However, the area burned is much greater, indicating that the fires that...

    Interestingly, the quantity of fire starts hasn't really changed much this year versus the average. It's just a bit higher. However, the area burned is much greater, indicating that the fires that do start are consuming much more land before petering out.

    The official statistics page has all these graphs and more. It's quite interesting. Scroll down to the bottom to see the graph of area burned per year.

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