Canadian Hashim smoke leads to air quality alerts in the United States Climate crisis news

Fires through many Canadian provinces and lands are health risks to Canadians and their southern neighbors.

Smoke from Forest burned fires in Canada It has sparked air quality alerts in the United States.

Several fire continued anger throughout Canada on Saturday, as it was sent smoke over several states in the American Middle West and brought warnings of unhealthy air for at least the third day.

The air quality alerts were valid in the United States in the state of Iowa, Mainisota, Yistskonsen and Michigan, as well as East Nebraska and parts of Indiana and Ilinoi.

The circumstances were especially terrible in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an air quality monitoring database in Switzerland, which compares that the American city has some of the worst air pollution in the world since Friday.

The air quality index (AQI), a system used to connect the amount of pollution in the air, will reach the red or unhealthy category in a large group of Minnesota, and it is likely to remain until Saturday.

“We have somewhat dealt with this, day after day, as you walk outside and you can taste smoke, you can smell its smell,” said Joe Sttros, meteorological specialist in the Minneapolis -San Paul region.

The predictors have warned that the smoke sky will remain throughout the Middle West, mostly on Saturday, but they may start to waste before spreading south, such as Tennessee and Missouri.

The poor air quality is a special risk for people with lung and heart disease, as well as children, elderly and pregnant women.

This is not the first time that Canadian forest fires have paid air quality alerts in the United States and elsewhere. In 2023, a Record the early forest fire season Send smoke across the Atlantic Ocean to northern Europe.

On Saturday, the Canadian Foreign Foreign Fire Center was “out of control” in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, as well as in Yukon and the northwestern regions.

The center said that 717 fires were active throughout the country.

The Canadian environment also said that “very high” air pollution levels were present in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and the northwestern regions, according to a report issued by the Canadian Press News Agency.

The regions of British Columbia, Alberta and Cibik were under weather control, although health risks were less.

The Canadian environment said that low visibility and weak air quality will continue until Sunday.