Republicans threaten Canada with sanctions over drifting wildfire smoke

Asked about the American accusations, Carney told reporters on Thursday: “Fighting climate change is the responsibility of all countries, including the United States.” 

The premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said on Friday that the US could offer more aid to fight the fires, as Canada has done for its neighbor in the past. “Maybe what you should do rather than complain is send support, send help,” Ford said. “Because we have done the exact same thing for our American friends, and that’s what you’re supposed to do.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/republicans-canada-sanctions-wildfire-smoke

 

Wildfire Smoke Is Affecting People’s Sperm and Embryos, Studies Show – Mother Jones

“I would advise [families trying to conceive] to avoid wildfire smoke exposure, given what we know so far.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/05/studies-wildfire-smoke-exposure-health-effects-fertility-sperm-eggs-embryos/

 

Republicans complain to Canada over wildfire smoke despite supporting planet-heating bill

"Our communities shouldn't suffer because of poor decisions made across the border," Tom Tiffany, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin and one of the letter's authors, wrote on X. 

However, all of the authors of the letter – Tiffany, Brad Finstad, Tom Emmer, Glenn Grothman, Michelle Fischbach and Pete Stauber – voted for the so-called "big, beautiful" Republican spending bill that, among other things, slashes support for renewable energy and provides new incentives for the production of fossil fuels...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-canada-wildfire-complaint-letter

 

Wildfire smoke is back – fires burning across Canada are already triggering US air quality alerts in the Midwest and Plains

The pressing question on many people's minds: "Is this the new normal?" From our perspective as air quality scientists, we think the answer is likely "yes."…

https://theconversation.com/wildfire-smoke-is-back-fires-burning-across-canada-are-already-triggering-us-air-quality-alerts-in-the-midwest-and-plains-229992

Opinion | I Lived Through Canada’s Summer Wildfire Smoke - The New York Times

The extreme weather conditions around the world are interconnected and insidiously self-accelerating, Professor Flannigan explained. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, altering the fast-flowing air currents high above the planet known as jet streams, which then cause wild fluctuations of temperature and precipitation. 

In northern Canada, the ensuing drought and heat primed the fuel and sent more hot air into the upper atmosphere to generate ever more lightning storms, which ignited the dry forest and the peat beneath it to release more carbon and more smoke to further intensify climate change around the world. And it's going to get much worse, Professor Flannigan said, especially with the onset of El Niño, the periodic rise in the temperatures of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean. "There will be more droughts, more floods, more extreme weather, more records broken."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html

Rodale’s Organic Life: Air Pollution Is Shortening Your Life And Harming Babies In The Womb—Here's What You Can Do

The recent wildfires in California generated a lot of smoke. This is obviously bad news, as breathing in the noxious air close to a raging wildfire can cause serious health problems (or even death) for anyone, especially those with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and heart conditions . But it also got us thinking—what about the increasingly dirty air we all breathe in on a daily basis? What's that doing to us? ....
https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/wellbeing/health-effects-air-pollution