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Calgary Herald
4 days ago
- Climate
- Calgary Herald
Vicious cycle: Wildfire smoke and wind a growing threat in Alberta
Edmontonians getting bombarded with cellphone warnings about hazardous air conditions need to pay attention. Article content In an ever-lengthening forest fire season, there's a gritty new reality to climate change where smoke from as far away as Washington state can make people in Bonnie Doon or St. Albert more miserable than ever before, said Matthew Adams, a geography professor at the University of Toronto. Article content Article content Article content 'Scientists in about 1980 were predicting that this frequency of occurrence, and the amount of forest burned, would increase, and we have been seeing it,' Adams said. Article content Article content In turn, wildfires emit carbon into the air, perpetuating conditions causing the wildfires. Article content It's a vicious cycle — the more that climate causes warming, the more that causes wildfires. Article content Wednesday was National Clean Air Day, part of Canadian Environment Week. Article content 'Air pollution, exacerbated by wildfire smoke, is the leading environmental risk to health in Canada and contributes to nearly 18,000 deaths a year,' said Jessica Sit of the Lung Health Foundation, noting the fire smoke can drift thousands of kilometers, putting millions of Canadians at risk, and especially those who have breathing challenges like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other lung conditions. Article content Article content 'Air pollution doesn't recognize postal codes — it can and will travel — and no level of exposure is safe,' said Sit, a certified respiratory educator and registered respiratory therapist. Article content Unprecedented changes Article content Tanzina Mohsin is a climatologist and a professor of physical and environmental science at the University of Toronto. Article content This year's start of the wildfire season is unprecedented but not an 'isolated anomaly,' Mohsin said. Article content 'It is actually a signal of troubling escalation in Canada's climate vulnerability. This is a fire season unfolding earlier and far more aggressively than historical norms. This crisis is being fuelled by a perfect storm of weather extremes — early May temperatures in high thirties caused a prolonged heat wave. The low humidity and strong wind, all kind of linked together indicating broader climate change-driven shift.
Edmonton Journal
4 days ago
- Climate
- Edmonton Journal
Vicious cycle: Wildfire smoke and wind a growing threat in Alberta
Article content Edmontonians getting bombarded with cellphone warnings about hazardous air conditions need to pay attention. In an ever-lengthening forest fire season, there's a gritty new reality to climate change where smoke from as far away as Washington state can make people in Bonnie Doon or St. Albert more miserable than ever before, said Matthew Adams, a geography professor at the University of Toronto.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Yahoo
Trio stabbed during knife fight at NYC bar, man arrested
One person was arrested after three men were slashed outside a Manhattan bar during a fight early Saturday, cops said. The fracas erupted around 3:30 a.m. after closing outside Sally's Bar on Lexington Avenue near East 29th Street in Kips Bay, police said. The victims were approached by a group of men who asked them if they had any drugs, a police source said. One of the men then pulled out a pocketknife and slashed the threesome, the source said. One victim, who was in his 30s, was cut in his abdomen, a 45-year-old was slashed on the shoulder and a 46-year-old was cut on his neck, cops said. They were taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said. Arlo Willner, 20, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said. He has no prior arrests, a police source said Matthew Adams, 49, a tattoo artist for 26 years who works in the neighborhood, said too many people are armed. 'It's a shame that people walk around with knives,' he said. 'He already has a stupid mentality. He's carrying a knife, he's looking for a fight.' The neighborhood is usually safe, he added. 'But I'm a New Yorker,' he said. 'Anything can happen anywhere. It's very unfortunate this happened here because you have blood on the sidewalk of a nice neighborhood.' Rachelle Loyear, 50, who works in the security industry and has been living in the neighborhood for 10 years, said she was 'shocked' by the incident. 'I would absolutely walk up and down the street at 2 o'clock in the morning and feel perfectly safe,' she said, adding she may now change her ways. 'I may choose not to do that.'
