How wildfire smoke travels from Ontario to New York City — and turns distant city skies orange
- Wildfires that have torched huge areas of forest and devastated small communities are also sending smoke far and wide, prompting air quality warnings in distant cities and heated political rhetoric from the U.
- This year’s fire season has forced more than a dozen communities and areas to evacuate in recent days, including 10 First Nations communities across northern Ontario.
- But it's the smoke travelling across borders, causing hazy skies as far away as New York City, that has drawn the ire of some politicians.
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- Wildfires that have torched huge areas of forest and devastated small communities are also sending smoke far and wide, prompting air quality warnings in distant cities and heated political rhetoric from the U.
- This year’s fire season has forced more than a dozen communities and areas to evacuate in recent days, including 10 First Nations communities across northern Ontario.
- But it's the smoke travelling across borders, causing hazy skies as far away as New York City, that has drawn the ire of some politicians.
Sources: CBC