Environment
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires clouds skies over New York
The Manhattan skyline is partially obscured by smoke from the Canadian wildfires. photo
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The smoke-laden air after the great forest fires in Canada knows no bounds. Not only in Ottawa and Toronto do people have to breathe them in, New Yorkers feel them too.
The numerous forest fires in Canada are also noticeable on the east coast of the USA. The smoke from hundreds of fires in eastern Canada moved south and has been shrouding the US metropolis of New York in a foggy veil since Tuesday.
In the US capital Washington, around 370 kilometers further south, the air is cloudy and it smells burnt. Both cities issued a warning about poor air quality.
Authorities in Canada’s metropolises of Ottawa and Toronto, as well as in the US states of Minnesota and Massachusetts, also warned residents of bad air. Numerous fires have been raging in Canada’s west and now also in the north-east of the country for weeks. In the south-eastern province of Nova Scotia, the situation had recently eased somewhat.