‘End of days’ haze blankets America’s northeast
What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletterIt’s almost summer in America but instead of sunshine and clear blue skies, millions of people in the country’s northeast woke up this morning to a reddish-grey haze blanketing their cities from wildfires in Canada.
And elsewhere in the region, worsening air quality has prompted “code red” warnings across parts of Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, which essentially means the air is so unhealthy that people with respiratory illnesses, older adults, children and teens are urged to stay inside.The wildfires in Canada have been burning for weeks, but there are now hundreds of them across the country, from Quebec and Ontario, to Alberta and British Columbia.
A Man talks on his phone as he looks through the haze at the George Washington Bridge from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.After all, as authorities warned on Monday, Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction, with warm and dry conditions expected to persist through to the end of the northern summer.
But while Pride parties, parades and picnics are taking place all over the US, there’s something particularly joyous about being in DC - a progressive city with the nation’s highest LGBTQ population per capita - to mark the occasion.
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