Remarkable: The amount of land burned in 2023 in Canada was two times higher than the old record. Smoke from that year’s Canadian fires killed 82,100 people globally — 33,000 in the U.S. — because of PM 2.5 particle pollution.
Dr. Jeff Masters
Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds
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A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.
