The View From Space as Wildfire Smoke Smothers Large Swaths of North America

Smoke from blazes in the western United States and Canada has blown across North America and even across the North Atlantic to Europe.

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By Tom Yulsman
Jul 22, 2021 12:30 AMJun 22, 2023 8:19 PM
Wildfire Smoke Spreads Nearly Coast-to-Coast
Smoke from wildfires in the western United States and Canada spread nearly coast to coast, and from Canada to Mexico, on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, as seen in this map based on computer modeling output. (Credit: NOAA Global Systems Laboratory)

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Yesterday, as my daughter sat in the stands of New York City's Yankee Stadium, she turned her gaze from the players on the field to the sky. She was unsettled by what she saw: a miasma of air pollution.

"I'm at a Yankees game and the sky looks like Shanghai," she texted me. "Is it from the fires?"

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