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If the U.S. House of Representatives ever decides to do useful work again, one of its top priorities should be an overhaul of federal disaster relief. The government is not prepared to cope with what climate change is throwing at us. Neither are the millions of Americans living in disaster-prone places. That’s the conclusion of…
Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke is taking a toll on human health in California, where residents of one county are losing an average of two years off their lives due to the air they breathe, a new report has found. Twenty of the nation’s top 30 most polluted counties in 2021 were located in California,…
Maui County is suing its local power utility, alleging the company negligently failed to turn off its power lines, exacerbating the deadly wildfires that ravaged the island and killed at least 100 people. The lawsuit filed on Thursday claims that the Hawaiian Electric Company should have known “to properly maintain and repair the electric transmission…
Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire fills the air and nearly blocks out the sun as people take in the view of Okanagan Lake from Tugboat Beach, in Kelowna, B.C., last week. (Photograph by Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.) In the past few days, while Canadians watched Yellowknifers flee their homes, residents of another city were…
The Pentagon has deployed nearly 700 personnel and 140 U.S. Coast Guard responders to Hawaii to help combat the wildfires still spreading across the Pacific island state, according to the latest update. U.S. defense officials on Friday pledged to continue its efforts in fighting the wildfires until the blazes are fully extinguished and to help…
Alty says at least 6,500 residents have left since the evacuation order was given on Wednesday, with more departing today Vehicles line-up for fuel on Thursday at Fort Providence, on the only road south from Yellowknife. (Photograph by Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.) Rebecca Alty has already lived through one wildfire scare. Before she was mayor of…
“It looked like something out of a nightmare.” (Photograph by the Canadian Press/HO, Communications Nova Scotia.) In his eight years as a volunteer firefighter, station captain Cole Jean had never seen a blaze like this before. It started in the late afternoon of May 28 with a call to his station in Upper Tantallon, Nova…
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“We’re designed to fight bacteria and viruses. We can’t do smoke.” “We can clearly see the negative effects of wildfire smoke on the lungs, but there was some hope that it wouldn’t be as severe as the impact of urban air pollution.” (Photograph by iStock.) Looking at pictures of wildfires wreaking havoc across Canada is…