Dual threat puts the most vulnerable at risk on what’s expected to be the hottest day of the year. Temperatures, humidity should lower over the weekend.
It s been over a week since smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the area with some of the worst air quality in the world. Here are answers to some lasting questions about the hazy event, like how much of it was due to climate change, why the wildfires have been burning for so long, and why poor air quality is dangerous.
Canadian wildfires ”are going to burn all summer and into the fall. We might be under the gun again,” one expert says. But an Argonne National Laboratory scientist sounds a hopeful note on climate change: “We can do something about it. It is a result of our actions.”
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