Accelerating climate change makes wildfires bigger, hotter, and more destructive. Canada, with more than a quarter of the world’s boreal forests, is arming twice as fast as the global average. Fires there are now causing severe air quality problems in the U.S.. Wildfire smoke can be extremely harmful to the lungs, especially for children, older adults and those with asthma, COPD, bronchitis, a chronic heart disease or diabetes.
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sheet-wildfires/
abcnews.com/US/canadian-wildfire-smoke-descends-us-spreading-great-lakes/story?id=134774391
www.lung.org/blog/how-wildfires-affect-health