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Wildfire smoke is back: fires burning across Canada are already triggering US air quality alerts in the Midwest and Plains
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Wildfire smoke is back: fires burning across Canada are already triggering US air quality alerts in the Midwest and Plains

Charles O Stanier, Gregory R Carmichael and Peter S Thorne
The Conversation
05/14/2024
DOI: 10.64628/AAI.ggg9fxgrq
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Abstract

States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.
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