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Canada wildfires

May 2024

  • Cars block roads in Alberta as a wildfire spreads towards Fort McMurray

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    Canada wildfires: huge queues on highway as thousands evacuate oil town – video

  • a wildfire burns beneath the aurora borealis

    No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure

  • Smoke from the wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday. Authorities are bracing for another possibly devastating wildfire season.

    Canada city devastated by 2016 wildfire faces evacuations as new blaze nears

  • huge red fire photographed from the air at night

    British Columbia ‘extremely concerned’ as wildfire threatens to destroy town

March 2024

  • Wildfire Smoke Yellowknife, Yellowknife, Canada - 23 Sep 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/Shutterstock (14121836c) Heavy smoke from wildfires in northern Alberta and British Columbia fill the air at 9am Mountain Daylight Time in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Wildfire Smoke Yellowknife, Yellowknife, Canada - 23 Sep 2023

    How did Canada end up with worse air quality than the US?

    Year of devastating wildfires meant Canadians were breathing worse air than southern neighbours for first time ever

January 2024

  • In this aerial image, an aircraft, center, flies near a wildfire burning near Barrington Lake in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Communications Nova Scotia/The Canadian Press via AP)

    Nova Scotia man charged with starting province’s largest-ever wildfire

  • Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian forces helicopter in Quebec on 12 June 2023.

    Canadian man who claimed wildfires were a federal conspiracy admits arson

November 2023

  • A firefighter from an Alaska smoke jumper unit uses a drip torch to set a planned ignition on a wildfire burning near a highway outside Vanderhoof in northern British Columbia, Canada on July 11, 2023. Planned ignitions like this help firefighters remove fuel between a main fire and a control line or guard built by hand, or with heavy equipment. Photo by Jesse Winter NOT FOR SYNDICATION

    After a record year of wildfires, will Canada ever be the same again?

    Unprecedented blazes tore through boreal forest unleashing vast carbon emissions in what may be a permanent change of state

October 2023

  • People with umbrellas walk on the street on a rainy day in Manhattan

    New York City faces lower air quality from Canada wildfires

    Forecasters warn that smoke from fires will bring a visible haze as city reports elevated levels on the Air Quality Index

September 2023

  • Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian Forces helicopter in Quebec<br>Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian Forces helicopter surveying the area near Mistissini, Quebec, Canada June 12, 2023. Cpl Marc-Andre Leclerc/Canadian Forces/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY/ TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Wildfires turn Canada’s vast forests from carbon sink into super-emitter

  • FILES-CANADA-FIRE<br>(FILES) Residents watch the McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on August 17, 2023, from Kelowna. Ottawa estimates the annual cost of fighting wildfires at Can$1 billion, and noted that, according to the Canadian Climate Institute, climate impacts such as more and bigger fires could halve Canada's projected economic growth in the coming years. Most worrying, he said, is that Canadians aren't dealing anymore with one localized disaster every few years or decades, but rather "several events stacked on top of each other in a single year" -- including fires, floods, heatwaves and powerful storms. (Photo by Darren HULL / AFP) (Photo by DARREN HULL/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Sleeping giant’ drought threatens more disasters after record Canada wildfires

August 2023

  • French firefighters assist with Canada wildfires<br>QUEBEC, CANADA - JUNE 23 : (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â" "MANDATORY CREDIT - FREDERIC CHOUINARD / SOPFEU" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) A view of wildfires at Lebel-sur-Quevillon in Quebec, Canada on June 23, 2023. (Photo by FREDERIC CHOUINARD /SOPFEU / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Climate crisis made spate of Canada wildfires twice as likely, scientists find

  • Charred remains are seen beside a highway in Enterprise, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, Canada

    Canada wildfires: Trudeau deploys military to tackle blazes across British Columbia

  • The McDougall Creek wildfire burns at the edge of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on Saturday.

    Canada wildfires: thousands told to flee in British Columbia, as drone-flying tourists criticised

  • West Kelowna, a city of 36,000 people, lies 300km (180 miles) east of Vancouver.

    Huge wildfires sweep across British Columbia – video

  • Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency while 19,000 flee Yellowknife fire

  • Wildfires rage in Canada as thousands of people evacuate cities – video

  • Canada fire crews battle to stop wildfire from engulfing city of Yellowknife

  • How is Meta’s news ban affecting communications amid Canada wildfires?

  • Out of control wildfire burns through part of northern Canada – video

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