Why is the air so poor today? Smoke and haze from Canadian wildfires are hitting Northeast Ohio.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre has reported that 76,129 square kilometers of land including forests has burned across Canada since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometers , according to the National Forestry Database.
Many of the fires burning in Canada are in Quebec and Ontario, nearer to North America’s most populated areas than western wilderness areas.
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