Robert Scheller News Today

From the Roof of the World to Canada’s North, natural disasters highlight the risks of climate change

While the death toll from Hawaiian wildfires climbs, grief-stricken officials there have hit on a pair of common themes as they try to process the disaster.

The wildfires that ravaged Canada this summer have some experts calling for a more aggressive approach to the blazes than the country’s historically reactive, case-by-case approach. As of Tuesday, 1,160 fires are burning across the country. This year, nearly 30 million acres have burned across Canada, an area bigger than several individual U.S. states. The area burned…

With over 120 million U.S. residents across the Midwest and Northeast under an air quality alert and 60 million residents in the South under heat advisories on Thursday, Americans are contending with two different effects caused by climate change.

Hundreds of Canadian wildfires that blanketed Northeast Pennsylvania in acrid smoke this week were started by careless humans, in some cases, and by lightning strikes in others.

Carbon Brief examines the role of climate change in the Canadian wildfires and how the media has responded.

Canadas wildfires are bigger than they used to be, and experts say theyre set to get even worse. That will keep impacting US air for years.

Smoke from wildfires has enveloped Toronto and New York. We look at the role of a changing climate.

The size, ferocity and number of wildfires this year in Canada is decidedly abnormal. The smoke is now affecting US weather.

Like most Americans, I am OUTRAGED that Canada is mucking up our beautiful air quality with smoke from its presumably maple-scented wildfires.