Barry Saxifrage

Science 1 hour ago This stunning NASA map tracks our summer of wildfire smoke Fast Company - BY Adele Peters • 1h Hundreds of fires have burned in Canada and the northwestern U.S. This visualization shows exactly how far the pollution travels.

Canadian forests are getting cooked by our fossil fuel pollution, unleashing a rapidly intensifying wildfire crisis. Most summers used to be calm, low-fire seasons when Canadians could peacefully enjoy our lakes, woods and mountains. As we will see, those low-fire years have become vanishingly rare because we’ve burned away the cooler, calmer climate that made them possible. Most summers in Canada now are choking, high-fire endurance events.

Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis is cooking up a future nobody wants to live in By Barry Saxifrage National Observer August 17, 2026 Category: Forestry Canadian forests are getting cooked by our fossil fuel pollution, unleashing a rapidly intensifying wildfire crisis. Most summers used to be calm, low-fire seasons when Canadians could peacefully enjoy our lakes, woods and mountains.