The federal government has set up Canada's first-ever reserve of firefighting aircraft to help provinces and territories ...

The summer of 2025 has been another harrowing season for wildfires in Canada, testing the country’s landscapes and communities and also its firefighting capacity and institutional resilience (and has ...

Smoke from wildfires is not something to be taken lightly, as it impacts air quality for miles. The danger of it can be measured on the air quality index (AQI), a scale that goes from zero to over 300 ...

The hazy air hovering over US metropolises, including Chicago and New York, this summer is reminding Americans of just how connected they are with their northern neighbor, regardless of how much ...

Smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires has made skies in Pennsylvania and other states hazy this week. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection declared a Code Orange Air Quality ...

B.C.-based pilot Bryan Jeffrey is among the crew who will operate 10 aircraft leased from three British Columbia firms to create a new national wildfire air fleet that can be deployed to hot spots ...

FOR PROTECTION. ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT’S BECAUSE THE AIR POLLUTION PARTICLES ARE SO FINE THEY TRAVEL DEEP INTO THE LUNGS. NEW HAMPSHIRE’S AIR QUALITY ALERT IS REACHING AS FAR SOUTH AS NEW JERSEY AND ...