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May 13 2024
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Canadian wildfire smoke prompts air quality warnings in Minnesota, Wisconsin
Much of Minnesota and Wisconsin were under air quality warnings early Monday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Fine air particles in the Twin Cities reached as high as 184 on the Air Quality Index, considered “unhealthy” by the federal government’s air quality tracker. Unhealthy levels of air quality stretched from St. Cloud, Minn., to Eau Claire, Wis., on Monday. There are six
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May 12 2024
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Shut windows Sunday night, Minnesota, as poor air quality moves in
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air quality red alert — considered unhealthy for all — beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday as wildfire smoke from Canada wafts into the state. The alert is the first red alert statewide of the 2024 season, following a record number of alerts — 21 across Minnesota — issued in 2023. The smoke will follow a cold front coming in from north to south,
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Jun 28 2023
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Canada wildfire season now worst on record as firefighters battle nearly 500 blazes
Smoke from northeastern Ontario and central western Quebec wildfires creates a haze across the skyline in Toronto, Ontario, on Wednesday. Photo: Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Firefighters in Canada are now battling 497 active wildfires across the country after 31 new blazes ignited, according to the latest data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center. The big
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Jun 29 2023
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Canada’s wildfire smoke to spread after heavy rain in Quebec failed to quell the blaze
Canadian wildfires will send worsening smoky air across the country and neighboring United States in coming days after recent heavy rains in Quebec missed the places where the fires are most active, officials said Wednesday. Smoke from the wildfires has lowered curtains of haze on broad swaths of Canada and the United States, pushing into southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and moving into
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Jun 29 2023
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Wildfire Smoke: Smoke From Canada Fires Stretches From Midwest to East Coast
Upstate New York bears the brunt of the state’s smoke pollution. Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada turned the sky over Rochester, N.Y., a hazy orange on Wednesday. Air quality remained in the “unhealthy” range in several regions of New York State on Thursday. Air quality alerts were in place in several upstate New York cities on Thursday afternoon as the plume of wildfire smoke drifted
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Jun 28 2023
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Wildfire smoke live updates: Detroit, Chicago and the Midwest blanketed by haze from Canada
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is sending waves of haze and particulates over parts of the Central and Eastern United States. Air quality tracking sites like AirNow.gov, which is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, show parts of the Great Lakes region, including Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, to have the worst conditions. In cities like Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee, the air
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Feb 11 2023
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New Unidentified Object (UFO) Shot Down Over Canada Today
A new unidentified object or UFO was shot down over Canada today, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote in a tweet on February 11, 2023. The development comes after an U.S. fighter pilot shot down an unidentified object off the coast of Alaska on Friday, February 10, 2023, according to a White House spokesman. And it comes a week after the United States shot down a Chinese surveillance
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Feb 11 2023
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New unidentified ‘high-altitude object’ shot down over Canada
A new “high-altitude airborne object” has been spotted and shot down over Canada’s Yukon territory, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday, as U.S. personnel continued efforts to recover the remnants of two other craft shot down over Alaska and South Carolina within the last week. Trudeau said in a tweet that Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled to respond in the latest
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May 12 2024
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MSC cruise ship sails into NYC with 44-foot dead endangered whale across its bow
NEW YORK (AP) — A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 44-foot (13-meter) dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said. The whale, identified as an endangered sei whale, was caught on the ship’s bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said. A spokesperson for MSC Cruises
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May 12 2024
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After repeated blasts of smoke last summer and one of the driest winters on record, Chicago enters the 2024 wildfire season with trepidation
After repeated blasts of thick and smelly wildfire smoke last summer and one of the warmest and driest winters on record, Chicagoans can be forgiven for anticipating the 2024 wildfire season with a sense of dread. In fact, governments in both the United States and Canada say they’re correct to feel this way. “The conditions are ripe for another bad fire season,” said John Mooney, air quality
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