Wildfire Smoke Across Borders: A Global Air Quality Crisis The unrelenting spectacle of Canadian wildfire smoke shrouding the US midwest, mid Atlantic, and north east is a stark reminder that our global air quality crisis knows no borders.
For tens of millions of Americans, the experience is all too familiar – pungent smoke filled skies, irritated eyes, and hazardous air quality indexes.
Cities like Chicago and Detroit are struggling to cope with "hazardous" levels of air pollution, while Baltimore and Washington D. C. are dealing with "very unhealthy" conditions.