Canadian Wildfires WILL Affect US and Europe…….

The Air we Breath across the globe………

Wildfires in Canada have forced thousands of residents to evacuate in three provinces, impacting air quality in the U.S. — and smoke from the deadly fires has even blown across the Atlantic and reached parts of Europe.

The big picture: The fires that killed two people in Manitoba have been hitting air quality across the country and into the U.S. for days, with the latest alerts affecting Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and parts of Michiganon Tuesday.

• Parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will also be under alerts on Wednesday due to “unhealthy” air quality levels, per the National Weather Service.
• The U.S. announced Monday the deployment of 150 federal firefighting personnel to Canada to help tackle the escalating threat of the fires that researchers and officials say are being fueled by climate change.

Threat level: Mandatory evacuation orders have been enacted in the western provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta — as Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre data showed the number of fires across Canada grew to 205 by Tuesday evening, with 103 burning out of control.

• The premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan ordered 30-day provincial states of emergency declarations last week.

Between the lines: Mike Flannigan, a wildfire expert at Thompson Rivers University, noted on Bluesky that an estimated 1 million hectares (nearly 2.5 million acres) in Canada had burned as of Friday….

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image…Wildfire smoke above Highway 97, north of the Buckinghorse River near Trutch, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday. Photo: Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/Bloomberg via Getty