President Trump on Friday threatened additional tariffs on Canada for wildfires that have blanketed large parts of the Midwest and East Coast in smoke in recent days, blaming the U.S.’ northern neighbor for failing to contain the blazes. “We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and […]
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Heavy smoke from wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is engulfing large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, impacting air quality as millions of people are exposed to hazardous levels of air pollution. More than 100 wildfires are burning in Canada, and winds are carrying the smoke southeast. Multiple wildfires are raging […]
Crew members aboard a Canadian National Railway freight locomotive captured roughly 84 seconds of video on July 13 that puts viewers right inside the cab as wildfire pushed close to the tracks near Armstrong in northwestern Ontario. The recording, later shared publicly, shows the train stalled while intense flames and thick smoke turned the view […]
Two firefighting planes were deployed to the Paris region Sunday after a large fire erupted south of the French capital, disrupting traffic during a busy summer travel weekend and piling more misery on a region sweltering through its latest heatwave. The fire, which officials described as “very virulent” and of “exceptional scale,” began late afternoon […]
A British man caught up in Spanish wildfires has described how he survived the inferno as his wife and friends died trying to escape. Malcolm Timbrell, 70, lived with his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, in the village of Bedar, in the Almeria province of southeast Spain. The area was scorched by wildfires on July 9 […]
At least 12 people died in a wildfire Friday in the town of Los Gallardos in southern Spain, near the popular tourist city of Almeria, authorities said. Eight more were injured and 23 were unaccounted for. The cause of the blaze hasn’t been determined but Spain has been one of many European nations hit by […]