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Graphic Truth: Canada braces for wildfire season
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Graphic Truth: Canada braces for wildfire season

As the weather warms, the US and Canada are bracing for the potential of another record-breaking wildfire season.

Are the US and Canada ready for wildfire season?
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Are the US and Canada ready for wildfire season?

The year is barely underway and the US has already witnessed a record-setting fire. Texas on Thursday was battling the second-largest wildfire in US history.

Perp walks, plane crashes, and debating the future
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Perp walks, plane crashes, and debating the future

On any other day, we might start our GZERO North newsletter with the housing crisis afflicting the US and Canada and what, if anything, the federal governments should do about it (they have to act, and mewling an excuse about this not being federal jurisdiction is the political equivalent of “the dog ate my homework!”).

The fire-ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
News

Fires undermine tourism in B.C., Maui

Tourist operators in both British Columbia and Hawaii are suffering as a result of catastrophic wildfires. Both want and need potential customers to return, though travel restrictions remain in the parts of B.C. that are still on fire.

A medical worker administers a nasal swab to a patient at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center
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Hard Numbers: COVID hospitalizations, fiery moves, banking job cuts, traffic jams

21.6 & 7: Data from the CDC and Canada’s government show that, since last week, COVID-19 hospitalization rates have risen in the US and Canada by 21.6% and 7%, respectively.

A view shows wildfires near a highway in Yellowknife, Canada.
Climate

Canadian fires cause city-wide evacuation

Around 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, have been ordered to evacuate as deadly wildfires engulf the area.

Timeline showing area of land burned by wildfires in the US and Canada per year
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The Graphic Truth: Canada wildfires scorch records

To demonstrate how unprecedented Canada’s 2023 wildfire season has been, we look at two decades’ worth of data on land burned in wildfires in the US and Canada.

Smoke rises from the Texas Creek wildfire south of Lillooet, British Columbia.
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Where there’s fire there’s smoke

It seems like Canada’s number one export to the US is now smoke.

Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian military helicopter near Mistissini, Quebec.
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Cross-border deal for fighting wildfires

Canada and the US have signed an agreement to cut through the firefighting red tape.

Ice cream cone with a melting globe surrounded by climate protest signs
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Climate activists take on … Montana

These challenges aren’t going anywhere anytime soon – just like climate change.